some news

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Sat Apr 22 11:10:17 UTC 2006


Exactly! Thanks. We need progress in our field from anywhere, and we should 
help anyone who wants to help make progress.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:33 AM 4/22/2006, Hans N Beck wrote:
>Hi Stef,
>
>just for understanding - you and Alan want to say that
>
>- everyone which is interested is welcomed for giving new ideas how
>to make education, regardless of his favoured system/language
>- the implementation is not important - if someone want to use
>python, to bring in his ideas he should do so
>- reinventing or reengineering always gives the chance to think  once
>more about it - from a new point of view. Nothing is really ready.
>
>
>Something like this ?
>
>Regards
>
>Hans
>
>Am 22.04.2006 um 09:14 schrieb stéphane ducasse:
>
>>If you think about it the sad part is not really there.
>>I do not believe that teaching etoy, logo, botsinc really help kids
>>learning maths as with a teacher: They have fun, they are emerged
>>into maths, they are not afraid which is already a lot.  Instead of
>>investing in language people should invest
>>in contents: the right exercise to teach the right concepts.
>>Right now what you see (even if etoy) is that they are really few
>>good material. I translated the book of Kim and some french
>>teachers were happy and then asked the killing question: the start
>>was fun so what where is the contents?
>>Besides driving a car....(i pointed them to the graph basket ball
>>thingies but this is not enough).
>>So if Ubuntu people think that they can substitute the writing and
>>development of a math curriculum, with
>>a "come with me play stuff" developed in any language, this means
>>that this is a view of programmer (bold of course and full of
>>enthousiasm) and I wish them success, because I think that the
>>contents in any format is more important.
>>
>>May living and being surrounded by teachers biaised my view of the
>>world...
>
>





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