[squeakland] Testing and education

[karl ramberg]

Article in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/06/maker_faire_and_science_education_american_kids_should_be_building_rockets_and_robots_not_taking_standardized_tests_.html

One thing I experience with making stuff : I learn more from thing
that I do wrong or fail at than things I do that happen to work or be
right.
It is sad when school punish mistakes. Mistakes are a opportunity to
investigate and see what went wrong. And by doing that you learn.


Karl