Kay and Goldberg; Personal Dynamic Media

I find it really interesting how important children were to the purpose and creation of the dynabook. It shows how important learning and teaching was to the design process and overall purpose of the program. It makes me wonder why programming was ever taken, or never placed, in the curriculum of high school, middle school or even elementary school settings. I think had it been incorporated today's youth be more interested in creating their own platforms rather than the social media obsessed youth we have today. What i mean is today's youth is prone to using platforms such as social media, programs that have been created as a input/output cookie cutter function, rather than using the technology available to them to create their own programs and really utilize such technology in a more unique, artistic way. In addition I wonder how different my work, and myself as a person , would be had I been taught about computers and programming at a young(er) age.