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Teaching and Learning Powerful Ideas

The Real Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, Alan Kay
Children Learning by Doing: Squeak Etoys on the OLPC XO, Alan Kay
Thoughts About Teaching Science and Mathematics To Young Children, Alan Kay
Squeak Etoys Authoring & Media, Alan Kay
Squeak Etoys, Children & Learning, Alan Kay
Our Human Condition "From Space", Alan Kay
Background on How Children Learn, Alan Kay

Powerful Ideas Content and How to Represent It

Toward a More Scalable End-User Scripting Language, Allessandro Warth, Takashi Yamamiya, Yoshiki Oshima, Scott Wallace
TinLizzie WysiWiki and WikiPhone: Alternative approaches to asynchronous and synchronous collaboration on the Web, Yoshiki Oshima, Takashi Yamamiya, Scott Wallace, Andreas Raab

Fundamental New Computer Technologies^[*]

Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming, A. Kay, I. Piumarta, K. Rose, D. Ingalls, D. Amelang, T. Kaehler, Y. Ohshima, C. Thacker, S. Wallace, A. Warth, T. Yamamiya
Packrat Parsers Can Support Left Recursion, Alessandro Warth, James R. Douglass, Todd Millstein
Bare Blocks with a Thin Object Table: An Object Memory for Cola, Ted Kaehler
Efficient Sideways Composition in COLAs via 'Lieberman' Prototypes, Ian Piumarta
Open Reusable Object Models, Ian Piumarta, Alessandro Warth
Proposal to NSF - Granted on August 31st 2006, Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Yoshiki Oshima, Ian Piumarta, Andreas Raab
Accessible Language-Based Enviroments of Recursive Theories (a white paper advocating widespread unreasonable behavior), Ian Piumarta

Papers for Historical Context

The Power of the Context, Alan Kay
The Center of "Why?", Alan Kay
Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, Scott Wallace, and Alan Kay

^[*] This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0639876. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.