> Digital, actually is cold. And children are too sensitive not to perceive it > as cold. >
Yes, but they love cartoons. > Anything we can actually pet around? > I'm all for that too. Not either/or. > I'd feel better about it if I knew what problem, exactly, we were solving. > We're trying to recruit more girls by taking the edge off of technology some (more dolls, fewer bayonets). A kinder gentler CS? Doesn't mean we stop with the war games. Quakers play Quake. But it's metaphoric violence. > Or are we just riding tsunamis. > > Art Kids grow up watching a lot of TV, has a big impact. But pedagogy is still very pre-TV in a lot of ways, passed down through traditions that've been going since Rome and before. So how to break out of the pre-TV mode and embrace the fatter pipe bandwidths that computers and such now provide? I think by making TV, not just watching it, and that also means "scripting" with languages such as Python. I'm into multi-track audio also. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
