Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Ivan Krstić krs...@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu wrote: On Dec 25, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Right, a nice Logo is the one missing piece of the programming environments officially supported by OLPC I talked to Walter (Bender) about a week ago,

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread Daniel Ajoy
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500, edu-sig-requ...@python.org wrote: From: Edward Cherlin 2008/12/23 michel paul : http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in pursuing computer science or information

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.12.2008, at 17:38, Daniel Ajoy wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500, edu-sig-requ...@python.org wrote: From: Edward Cherlin 2008/12/23 michel paul : http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education Computing education benefits all students, not just those

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500, edu-sig-requ...@python.org wrote: From: Edward Cherlin 2008/12/23 michel paul : http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education Computing education benefits all students,

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread Edward Cherlin
Wait, I'm wrong. Brian Harvey's home page has a link for UCBLogo for the XO. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/ucblogo/ucblogo-4.xo I'll go try it out. On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500,

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread kirby urner
Good seeing the XO firing up again, G1G1 billboards up around town (says Ron Braithwaite, contributor to ANSI Forth committee work from long ago **), certainly a big theme in my household this year, as in under the (plastic) Christmas Tree, as well as a hit at our Solstice Party on the 20th.

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Dec 25, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Right, a nice Logo is the one missing piece of the programming environments officially supported by OLPC I talked to Walter (Bender) about a week ago, and he's working on this. We looked at PyLogo together, but it doesn't seem like it'll

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-24 Thread kirby urner
Very timely Michel, excellent tracking. I worked a juicy quote into my blog that very day: http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-musings.html Given Portland, I'm needing to sell Python in connection with GIS topics (PostGIS, ESRI... Ecotrust), i.e. the ambient culture is really into

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/12/23 michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com: http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in pursuing computer science or information technology careers, said Bobby Schnabel, chair of ACM's Education Policy

[Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-23 Thread michel paul
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in pursuing computer science or information technology careers, said Bobby Schnabel, chair of ACM's Education Policy Committee