[Squeakland] squeakfest conclusions

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire2006 at laposte.net
Wed Aug 2 01:41:03 PDT 2006


José L. Redrejo Rodríguez a écrit :

> But, what for me would be more useful is to know the general impression
> of the attendants to the current state of the Squeak use in particular,
> and of computers at schools in general. Squeak is more or less involved
> in a good bunch of projects as Tweak, Sophie, Croquet, Scratch, OLPC,
> etc, but the feeling I have from the distance is that all that cloud of
> projects don't seem to be followed by the educators, they just look like
> laboratory experiments, not being applied to the classroom except for

I fell like there are a lack of solid experimentation, validation and
output at the research level regarding the educational aspect of Squeak
use in education.


> some testing purposes. The main Squeak community seems to be quite
> stationary and almost no new projects (in terms of .pr files and also,
> in term of the application use) have arrived for the last year. Maybe

Well, there was this DrGeoII interactive geometry thinks I wrote earlier
this year, but you already knows about it.


Hilaire



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