From building bikes in his Queens apartment to building worlds for kids, Don Moody has always been a creator at heart.
After a start in art school and the ad world, Don’s first big leap was WordWorld—a breakthrough PBS series inspired by his young daughter Liola. It didn’t just teach kids to read—it became a 360° media success that shaped a generation of early learners.
Listen to the full podcast here or read the transcript below.
Cynthia Nelson
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk About… a series spotlighting leaders, authors, artists, marketers, creators, and entrepreneurs sharing tips and expert advice on business, media, technology, and, frankly, life itself. I’m your host, Cynthia Nelson, three time entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, investor, and advisor. Today we’re talking to someone I adore, so just shout out right here known a long time Don Moody, who is the founder and CEO of Codie Blocks and also the creator of Mia and Codie.
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Cynthia Nelson
Don, welcome to the show.
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Don Moody
Hi, Cynthia. Thank you so much. That’s a great introduction. I love your podcast, and I’m always blown away by the intelligence of the people on it. So I hope I can keep up today.
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Cynthia Nelson
Well, it’s my way of learning, so I get a lot out of it. As much as you guys get out of it, I get out of it, too. And the audience definitely has great takeaways. I mean, we’ve known each other a long time, but, you know, nobody else on this podcast probably knows who you are, but maybe some do.
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Cynthia Nelson
But you’ve had an amazing career developing animated series for kids and 360 media entertainment properties. But how did this all start? Like, what’s the journey? Tell us your story.
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Don Moody
My story. Wwll it’s really two stories. The 3- because it’s two questions to 360 media properties. And the kids focus.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yep.
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Don Moody
My journey as an artist is probably the reason for the 360 media. I have been in search of a bigger canvas ever since I dropped out of the School of Visual Arts. I started as a painter, oil on canvas and Manhattan back in the day in the 90s, and, literally just strapped canvases to buildings on the streets of New York, painted all day.
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Don Moody
And if I got lucky, somebody walking by would buy a painting from me at night. And that was really my my career start, if you will.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah. That’s great.
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Don Moody
Yeah. Yeah. It’s, a little mix of, you know, fine art, commercial art and 360, right?
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah, yeah. And entrepreneurship 101.
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Don Moody
And entrepreneurship 101. I mean, really, my entrepreneurship is in my genes. I can tell you stories. As a child living in a apartment building in Queens where we had no money and, you know, getting a bicycle was a big thing back then, and we couldn’t afford one. But I noticed that people were moving in and out of the building on a regular basis, and they would leave parts of bicycles in the basement.
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Don Moody
And so I had this idea. Could all these parts make a bicycle? And they did. And I had this really cool, odd looking bicycle that kids wanted and bought from me.
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Cynthia Nelson
Oh so fun.
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Don Moody
So yeah. So I think I’ve been an entrepreneur for a long time and an artist for a long time. But the 360 really is, for me, I think it’s the power of art. I think art should do something. And so I went from, painting on canvas to painting on T-shirts, hand-painted designs that turned into silk screening so that I could do more volume.
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Don Moody
And those designs sold all over the world. And department stores like Bloomingdales and Macy’s all the way to Japan and Italy and, I started to really learn that I was more of a graphic designer than an artist, and the t shirt was a great, great way to practice graphic design. And that led me to the, advertising business, which is where I really got my, entertainment chops and real 360, because if you think about it, advertising, you know, before online shopping.
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Don Moody
Right? Just… context, advertising was art that had to make you get up and go do something in the real world.
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Cynthia Nelson
Right. Yeah, definitely.
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Don Moody
So so I think the 360 question is, is built in from my evolution of an artist going to bigger and bigger canvases, and then eventually, to children’s television, which I’ll tell you why I picked children’s television, but children’s television and actually educating children in the world, real world is another big 360 move. And so I said, it’s two stories.
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Don Moody
The second story is my daughter Liola, my first born when, when my wife at the time told me she was pregnant, I knew I had like nine months to figure out how to be a parent because, unfortunately, my father left when I was two, and I didn’t really have a role model. And, I spent a lot of time journaling every morning for nine months, and I came up with nothing and I burnt-
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Don Moody
I burnt all the journals. And so the only, the only idea I had was lead by example. And so I didn’t really want to be in advertising anymore. I wanted to do something that would help kids so that when I sat at the breakfast table with my children and talked about what I do for a living, that I can lead by example and, you know, in advertising, you do a lot of research around a problem.
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Don Moody
Where the friction is and then you go in and tackle the problem. So I approach children’s television really the same way. There was a problem in America with literacy, which I was shocked to learn. By the way, even more surprising, there was an answer. There was a long- longitudinal study done, by Hart and Risley that actually said the the answer to why children do better in the first grade than others is because the children that do better.
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Don Moody
Hear 30 million more words than the children don’t. Yeah interesting. And it’s just parents that talk in the home. They tend to be more positive words, which is also super important. You know, not don’t do this not don’t speak until spoken to. Right. And so I was like, I could work with that. That’s, that’s something I could deliver. And so I came up with the idea of a world of words, which then became the show that I’m most famous for, which is Word World.
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Don Moody
Which, you know, I’m not going to talk too much about because really, you have to see it to get it. But it’s it’s basically letters that come together to form the thing that they are. So the letters d-o-g would morph together and become a dog, a fun, lovable dog that you would want to go on stories with because it’s important when working with children to get their attention first and then teach them.
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Don Moody
And so, I had no idea how to make a television show. And I thought, well, how hard could this be? I’ve started so many other pieces from scratch without really understanding, anything about them. And so it was a little harder than I thought. And, I realized since I was going for 360 experience anyway, and, since it was better to show than tell when it’s a really visual idea, I realized that the the path to market would be to first make a toy, a manipulative that could actually teach children these words.
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Don Moody
And if I could do that, then making the television show would make sense, because that would be the greatest exposure that I could get to children, and especially title one children on PBS in the United States. And so, the canvas got bigger. It became a TV show, but it started with a toy, and we did tons of research with kids to show that it actually worked, because I didn’t want to put a couple of years into my life, which is what it takes to make a television show.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
Into something, and then find out later it didn’t work.
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Cynthia Nelson
Right, right.
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Don Moody
So I did the research first. We made the toys, and they worked. And so then I had to make a TV show. I pitched PBS, three times. They said no three separate times because I didn’t know how to pitch a TV show back then. Yep. And, you know, I finally decided, well, you know, the entrepreneur part kicked in, like, where do they get their funding from?
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Don Moody
And it’s the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Yeah. So I pitched them and they said no. And I said, where do they get their money from? And they said, the Department of Education. So I pitched them and I ended up winning an enormous grant from the Department of Education, which then made PBS say, sure, we’ll air Word World, which was great.
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Don Moody
And, I love that they came around because, you know, you can’t make a television show by yourself. It’s a huge team, takes over 100 people working all around the world to make a show. Yeah. And, with PBS, I was really able to reach the children that I wanted to. The title one children in America. And going back to the 360 part is, you know, I realized that a lot of people were just making television shows and then doing nothing else.
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Don Moody
But I had this toy, this manipulative, that really worked. So I reached out to RIF Reading is Fundamental. And it turned out they were delivering books to these title one homes where children couldn’t read and the parents couldn’t read. Right, right. And having grown up poor, I knew that. So it was actually an advantage and I was like, hey guys, have you ever thought of handing out videos and toys to teach kids how to read?
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Don Moody
And so that was really the 360. It was a huge breakthrough for RIF We donated millions of dollars and affected so many children’s lives. To this day, I get emails from all over the world, either from parents or children that have now grown up and have kids of their own. About how Word World really changed their lives and had major breakthroughs with children with dyslexia and learning disabilities.
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Cynthia Nelson
I remember the product.
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Don Moody
Oh, You do?
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Cynthia Nelson
Oh, I saw it in target. I remember the product so well. And the animated series is absolutely beautiful. But you know, from there you’ve learned so many lessons, right? How to create the product first, do all the research, get the grants, create a show. And now you’ve moved to creating Codie Blocks and Mia and Codie.
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Cynthia Nelson
I want the audience to understand what coding can do for kids. And you’re talking to kids 3 to 7. But like, what fundamentally are they learning at that age with Mia and Codie the series? which, by the way, is also phenomenal on PBS. It’s on in Canada on TVO and TFO, in dual language. What are they learning?
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Cynthia Nelson
How is it helping them in other areas?
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Don Moody
So, you know, first I’d like to take a step back and just talk about the inspiration for Mia and Codie if I could.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yes.
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Don Moody
And then maybe go forward and answer that only because it actually dovetails right off of the Word World story, which is one of the great things that happens when you win a grant from the government.
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Don Moody
Is they then want you to travel around the US and meet, other people that are working on solving the same problems. And I got very lucky, to meet a guy named Mitch Resnick who created Scratch, which is I think it’s the most used coding language in the world right now and has been for many years.
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Don Moody
And I got to go up to, MIT, to the Media Lab, where I met Mitch and a bunch of these students. And, I was so humbled that they thought I could at all help them. And, you know, their big pitch to me was coding is the new literacy. And so if I could do something, to teach young children coding, if I could do for coding what I did for learning English, that would be a major breakthrough.
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Don Moody
And so that stuck with me for a long time. And, you know, making something simple takes a long time.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
Mark Twain said if I had more time, I’d write you a shorter letter. Yeah.
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Cynthia Nelson
That’s a great one.
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Don Moody
Yeah. He was he was so right. So, I was like, oh, yeah, I could tackle that. Little did I know it was going to take me seven years of my life. Yeah. But so, you know, to answer your question, starting young is is important. But I just want to say that I really started the same way, and I made a toy, this time an invention, first and checked it with children, made sure it worked.
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Don Moody
I did a lot of research with hundreds of kids and then went and made the television show. So the same model, the same 360 model, and the same idea that, hey, this creativity has to actually do something off of the television screen if it’s going to be effective you know, in this day and age. And of course, it’s got to be great storytelling again, because it is a TV show first. My second daughter plays a little bit of a role because her name is Mia. And so I felt like, well, if I worked on the first one for my first daughter, I have to work on this one. So I really wanted a female lead because I felt, girls were being left behind in the whole Stem movement and particularly in coding.
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Don Moody
But I think it’s important to understand that in early childhood, and I learned this with Word World. The mind is ready. Children are born ready to learn the the, the mistake that a lot of people make in coding is they think you have to wait until kids can read, and then you can learn to code because they have to write these programs.
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Don Moody
And if they can’t read, they can’t write the programs
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Cynthia Nelson
Right.
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Don Moody
Absolutely not true. What I learned in all the research from Word World, which was the second most researched show in television after Sesame Street, by the way, is children are pre literate, right? They they are actually- reading and writing is very difficult. It takes three different parts in the brain to come together to read and write these abstract symbols.
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Don Moody
Right. However, talk to a child, they’ll tell you a full story.
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Cynthia Nelson
Oh yeah right. Completely.
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Don Moody
They’re so ready. And so I was like, well, how can I do that for coding? And I came down to emojis, you know, iPhones had been.
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Cynthia Nelson
Born and.
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Don Moody
Parents were giving their iPhones to kids. And if you give an iPhone to a kid, they will text you with a bunch of emojis. And if you have a little bit of patience and read them, they’re telling you a story.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah, yeah.
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Don Moody
It’s amazing. And so I took that idea and I put it on blocks because for younger kids, having something kinesthetic is so important. It aids in the learning. And, it makes it very age appropriate. And so, I took emoji-like icons and put them on physical blocks so that kids could write their own programs. And the the big thing I did was I put the blocks in a dock which forced the children to go left to right, because I learned again in Word World that children had a lot of trouble with where to start.
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Don Moody
They had a lot of trouble with left right. They would even pretend to if you if you asked a child, can you read a book? They’d say, yes, of course, as you gotta love kids, right?
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Cynthia Nelson
Right? Yes.
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Don Moody
The book opened.
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Cynthia Nelson
They didn’t know where to go.
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Don Moody
Well- Or they would fake it. I said, okay, where are you reading from? They would either point to the picture or the middle of the page. And I was like, huh. So I really have to let them know where to start, right? And so, the dock actually reeled them in and gave them a starting point, and that’s all they need.
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Don Moody
They take off after that. So, again, once I knew that this invention worked, once I knew this toy or manipulative, as they call it in the teaching world, worked. I reeled that back in and made the show. And, you know, the star of the show is Codie, a Pinocchio sort of robot who was created by a young girl named Mia.
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Don Moody
And Codie’s just a young boy who wants to do everything a boy wants to do. Fly a kite, ride a bicycle, go fishing. So highly kid relatable stories. Except that the only way he learns to do those is if Mia puts the blocks in his chest to code him to do it. So to that, that was the real breakthrough.
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Don Moody
And, children love to do what they see on television. And so then putting that manipulative in front of them made all the sense in the world, and they’re off writing their own code, and they come up with ideas that you and I would never think of.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah, completely. I mean, it’s it’s an incredible story. I mean, seven years again, it’s like getting to simple and making sure it’s right. Seven years.
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Don Moody
Yeah.
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Cynthia Nelson
You know, it’s not a short period of time. And I remember when you were first talking about it, which was like seven years ago, and I didn’t understand really anything about Stem or coding, at all.
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Cynthia Nelson
But now you’ve come kind of full circle to how Stem and steam are so important for this younger audience to learn. And I love the fact that it’s a female lead and a female character lead, because it’s really important to see girls out front. And she’s multicultural as well, which I think is also super important. What’s different now with kids and the education, especially with AI coming in, you know, what’s your opinion about how that’s going to interact good, bad or indifferent?
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Don Moody
Yeah. So, that’s a really good question. I could reach for my magic eight ball and shake it and give you a very accurate answer. But I think I would start with like, what’s not different. Right?
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Cynthia Nelson
Right.
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Don Moody
So what’s not different? What’s the difference between a five year old and a scientist.
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Cynthia Nelson
Right. It’s –
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Don Moody
nothing.
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Cynthia Nelson
Nothing. Yeah.
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Don Moody
Nothing. Right. Curiosity. Right. Asking questions, wondering! The joy of discovering something. Sounds like a scientist. The scientists just have more general knowledge. Right?
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Cynthia Nelson
Right.
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Don Moody
And so that’s not going to change. And so, introducing Stem at this young age is important because of that. And the other thing that’s not going to change is parents, teachers, caregivers wanting to teach children. We are born to be great parents. Most of us are just born to be great parents, and we’re going to want to do that.
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Don Moody
So that’s not going to change. And honestly, the kids themselves aren’t going to change. So it’s important to just, you know, pause and think about that for a second. And then the, you know, the real thing is, I think when I grew up, there was a lot of rote learning. You know, they didn’t allow calculators in the class.
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Cynthia Nelson
Right? Right. Oh, I remember that. Yeah.
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Don Moody
Yeah. And so, I think ChatGPT and all this AI is amazing. It helps me every single day. And the less I have to memorize rote-ly the more my mind can wander and the more things I discover. And so I think AI is going to let us discover again. Some people think humanity had its great discovery with the Renaissance and then going to space.
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Don Moody
I think it’s in the future because we’re being freed up to wonder again. We can be children as adults now. Imagine all of that wondering and wandering that’s enabled by AI. And the other thing I would say is having, you know, been a heavy user of AI for the last couple of years, I’ve noticed a distinct difference in the way, AI is interacting with me.
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Cynthia Nelson
Right?
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Don Moody
It’s positive, friendly and optimistic. Now, if AI is truly going out and getting all the information of the world and bringing it back to me in an optimistic way.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
That says, wow, there’s great hope out there. There’s great hope in our future and AI is a part of that. It’s a very, very strong part of that. So, you know, I can’t guess what’s happening in the next two years or two months, quite frankly. But I can tell you that I’m very positive on where it’s going.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah, I think there’s been a lot of spin related to the negativity of it and taking people’s jobs and doing it. And when I run into younger people who, maybe have a creative writing background or art background or it doesn’t even matter. And, Oh no I don’t really use it because this is what I went to school to do, and I’m like yeah but this could help create storylines to start you off.
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Cynthia Nelson
It doesn’t mean you need to use them exactly the way they’re presented, but you can create more scripts, you can create more stories, you can create more things and let it do the other. Again, rote, mundane things that you don’t want to do don’t have time for it. So you can. I love the wondering and wandering that AI frees you up to do that’s a that’s a great, I think, kind of prolific thing to say, but I, I see it the same way.
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Cynthia Nelson
Friendly, positive, you know, giving me information that I need quickly. But it, it comes back with, again this global world that we have out there. I agree with you. I’m not afraid of it. I don’t think parents should be afraid of it. It’s it’s it’s here. It’s not gonna- it’s not leaving anytime soon. It’s just going to grow.
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Cynthia Nelson
So you might as well actually learn how to do it. And then I would think with like Mia and Codie and the product itself, you know, forcing them into this are the blocks right. The blocks also in that way of left to right is also music. It’s it’s other thi- it’s math, it’s music. It’s there are other things that come off of that left to right.
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Cynthia Nelson
And those sequences, I’ve met a lot of people who are amazing at math that also play an instrument and read music. Not.
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Don Moody
Yeah, that’s a great
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Cynthia Nelson
not surprising, actually.
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Don Moody
That’s a great observation. And it’s what Mitch really said, you know, that coding is the new literacy. We are we are going to add, English lang- language learning, math and music. It’s just natural.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
But to the, to the AI and always learning point, I just would tell- tell you one other thing that’s interesting because you talked about parents being afraid of it.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
And and the great thing is children aren’t afraid of anything. One of the biggest things I discovered in my research with Mia and Codie, I went in to do research for children to make a more powerful, more friendly way to teach children. But every time I left the research, inevitably, because, you know, you go to classrooms.
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Cynthia Nelson
Right? So,
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Don Moody
The teacher would tap me on the shoulder and say, I just want to let you know, if I knew coding was this easy, I wouldn’t have been afraid to bring it into my classroom.
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Cynthia Nelson
There you go.
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Don Moody
And so it dawned on me, the number one friction point in teaching this to children are the adults.
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Cynthia Nelson
The adults. Yeah, completely.
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Don Moody
And so I ended up making a product for teachers. If you can make it friendly enough and easy enough for a five year old, you can make it friendly enough and easy enough for a parent or a teacher. And so that’s why we’re selling Codie Blocks directly to schools, because in the end, the demand was from the teachers, and they were relieved that they could teach this this easily.
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Don Moody
And I think that’s well, it’s not directly an AI story.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
It just shows you how.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
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Don Moody
We can continue to learn if it’s made simple enough. And that’s what AI is doing for us.
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Cynthia Nelson
I love the education side because, you know, sometimes these things are mandated, you know, globally, departments of education or a school district but you can’t
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Don Moody
But you can’t- well you can mandate it but you can’t force the learning.
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Cynthia Nelson
Yeah. There’s you can’t force and you can’t force the teachers to teach it sometimes mandate it but if they’re not into it again if it’s not friendly, it’s not easy. But then they with with Mia and Codie, you know obviously the the animated series but they sit down with a teacher set of it and there’s a Codie there that the kids can then play with.
00;26;08;06 – 00;26;25;16
Cynthia Nelson
They’re seeing interaction, creativity, you know, right away and they’re learning alongside of them how easy it is to do things. And it’s probably generating a lot of new ideas for how teachers teach as well in schools.
00;26;25;19 – 00;26;28;09
Don Moody
Yeah. Yeah, I’ve gotten a couple of hugs from teachers already.
00;26;28;20 – 00;26;29;06
Cynthia Nelson
I love that.
00;26;29;09 – 00;26;30;22
Don Moody
That part of my work to be honest.
00;26;30;23 – 00;26;32;20
Cynthia Nelson
That’s the best
00;26;32;23 – 00;26;33;05
Don Moody
Yeah.
00;26;33;08 – 00;26;58;09
Cynthia Nelson
So you’ve got the education piece. And, and if someone wants to go out and buy- Oh, first of all, watch and buy what, what did they do? I mean, you’ve got you’ve got the education kind of piece covered. But if you’re a parent that says, I really want to learn more about this, where can I? Obviously, PBS is the place to watch in the US and TVO and TFO in Canada.
00;26;58;11 – 00;27;04;29
Cynthia Nelson
But where else like I want, I want the product at home. I don’t want to buy a teacher’s edition, right? I want it at home. What do I do?
00;27;05;01 – 00;27;29;26
Don Moody
Sure. So that’s a great question. And yeah, good shout out for PBS and TVO who are really helping us spread the show. We also have a YouTube channel called Mia and Codie. Right. And we have snippets of of lessons there that parents can watch with their children. I highly recommend that. And we’ve made it a lot simpler than the in school program.
00;27;29;27 – 00;27;32;07
Don Moody
Yeah, because teachers are professionals.
00;27;32;08 – 00;27;33;14
Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
00;27;33;16 – 00;27;57;20
Don Moody
We are finishing up the rest of this year working with teachers because we’re learning from them. Yeah. And we’re making, a consumer version which will be ready at the end of the year. And so if you go to either codieblocks.com, now the teacher version, quite frankly, is easy enough for a parent to use right now if a parent is so inclined.
00;27;57;25 – 00;27;59;01
Cynthia Nelson
Yeah.
00;27;59;03 – 00;28;08;28
Don Moody
But we’re making an even easier one. And the YouTube channel, Mia and Codie on YouTube is the place to go right now to watch with your child.
00;28;09;00 – 00;28;32;09
Cynthia Nelson
Awesome. Don, we could go on forever. I love this conversation. It’s super engaging and amazing. I applaud what you’re doing. Seven years. Yeah, not an easy lift. Getting to simple and making it for kids. But I love the fact you made it easy for parents and educators because that’s key. If they don’t get it, the kids are not going to get it in their hands and learn from it.
00;28;32;11 – 00;28;51;22
Cynthia Nelson
And they are the ones who are out there exploring the world and learning from ground zero. So thank you so much for being on the show. I really appreciate it. Everybody, Mia and Codie, you heard it first. YouTube is the place to go product coming out next year. And if you’re an educator, we have a lot of educators listening.
00;28;51;25 – 00;28;57;11
Cynthia Nelson
Dial in and pick up your products for this fall. This upcoming fall Back to school.
00;28;57;14 – 00;29;19;09
Don Moody
Yeah, that’s codieblocks.com is set up specifically for teachers that can go in right now there there are over 100 teachers using it right now. And, I just want to say thank you because I’ve been listening to your podcast for a while and I’m super impressed. I’m impressed with the 360 degree kind of people you get on there.
00;29;19;09 – 00;29;24;21
Don Moody
You really cover it all, which is wonderful. I mean, that’s the way kids are learning today, right?
00;29;24;23 – 00;29;28;25
Cynthia Nelson
I definitely have a lot of fun doing it. But thank you, Don. Have a great day.
00;29;28;27 – 00;29;29;28
Don Moody
Take care. Bye bye.
00;29;29;28 – 00;29;30;07
Cynthia Nelson
Bye.
