Being a Case Study for Atlantic Live

Sep 12, 2014
Yesterday, I participated at the Atlantic Live Annual Conference in DC on Technologies in Education (@AtlanticLive). The Atlantic Magazine is gathering the world's top thinkers and leaders in politics, business, technology, education, global affairs--to engage the most influential audiences.  I was interviewed by Newsweek's Matt Cooper (@mattizcoop) on my work as an entrepreneur to inspire and fix the education system. Among other things I said, "If we want children to learn new and hard concepts, we need to make learning fun. Play is the lure. Making a creative playable game is the science." We also reached the conclusion that technology is the new pencil and therefore coding is the new writing. Learning how game media and software apps are made is the new literacy. Kids are not fully literate by just learning how to read or play games. They must learn how to make them. Watch the full interview here. We received many great responses on Twitter:  

Case Study: @Idit from @globaloria is sharing the success she's achieved as an entrepreneur http://t.co/gfunKGq4Ai #ATLTechinEd — AtlanticLIVE (@Atlantic_LIVE) September 11, 2014

Coding and technology is the new literacy@Idit #ATLTechInEd — Michael H. Levine (@mlevine_jgcc) September 11, 2014

Idit Harel, Globaloria: Use tech & MOOCs to think in new ways and tackle the hard stuff, in all subjects not just STEM. @Idit #ATLTechInEd

From @Idit in #ATLTechInEd: Think about 7 billion people learning in systems, think about the future. #NoPressure — LE (@ArtsHumana) September 11, 2014

— Andrew Trotter (@AndrewTrotter1) September 11, 2014

We all learned how to write in school, but not everyone became a journalist. It should be the same with coding. -@Idit #ATLTechInEd — Kayle Barnes (@KayleBarnes) September 11, 2014

From @Idit in #ATLTechInEd: Think about 7 billion people learning in systems, think about the future. #NoPressure — LE (@ArtsHumana) September 11, 2014

"We're teaching children how to think and solve problems." -@Idit #ATLTechInEd — 1776 (@1776dc) September 11, 2014

Watching live-MT Coding:what's most important-we're teaching kids how to think/solve problems @Idit #ATLTechInEd pic.twitter.com/Loe7Xf3HeK — Naomi Williams (@digitalfangirl) September 11, 2014

Harel: 55 million US students are not a lot, compared to the world. #wecanfixthis ATLTechinEd @Idit — Andrew Trotter (@AndrewTrotter1) September 11, 2014

.@idit: Coding is the new writing; not all of us became journalists, but we all learned to write. How tech literate are you? #ATLTechinEd — AtlanticLIVE (@Atlantic_LIVE) September 11, 2014

Coding: what's most important is that we're teaching children how to think and solve problems @Idit #ATLTechInEd pic.twitter.com/N0AqHJDvQo — AtlanticLIVE (@Atlantic_LIVE) September 11, 2014

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