[EDUCATION] Porting new wine into old bottles

[Edwin Pilobello]

IT WORKS!  Thanks for manually subscribing me to this list, Michael!

Now I can add an after thought.

I would rather use SQUEAK than MicroWorlds because it is FREE and can do
more.

Schools and parents love FREE.  Students, on the other hand, have a
different opinion because SQUEAK will not FREE them from homework.  The old
excuse of Mac in School versus PC at home, doesn't work with SQUEAK nor
MicroWorlds.

IMO, this is a powerful paradign.  In one pass, we could eliminate the two
largest edu-tech stumbling blocks...licensing cost and cross platform
portability.

I'm just hoping that there's enough memory in those PowerMac 7200's to run
the plug-in.

I am excited!

:-)  Edwin Pilobello
Instructor, Saturday Academy
www.saturdayacademy.org


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-squeakland at squeakland.org
[mailto:owner-squeakland at squeakland.org]On Behalf Of Edwin Pilobello
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 7:24 PM
To: squeakland at squeakland.org
Subject: RE: [EDUCATION] Porting new wine into old bottles


Now that I'm supposed to be subscribed to this listserv, I'll continue this
thread here.

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Of course you're absolutely right, Alan.  It is all about kids!  And I am
all for them.

Anywaym, I've made some inquiries with Logo Computing Systems Inc and the
possibility of acquiring a site license for an earlier version on
MicroWorlds.  But first, I need to inventory what is already there.  If the
PowerMacs can be maintained,  I'm quite certain that with trained teachers,
even Apple Basic could do the kids a lot of good.

If I can install SQUEAK then at least we can say that we have something
"new".

:-)  edwin


-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Alan Kay
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 4:50 PM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [EDUCATION] Porting new wine into old bottles


Edwin --

Well, it's always more about the kids than about Squeak. A great
system (in the hands of the right teachers) for this level machine is
LOGO Microworlds.