Paul D. Fernhout wrote: >I'll agree with your larger point in practice in our society, on roles for >both intrinsic motivation of liking some thing versus the extrinsic desire >to learn something just to get some task done. There is another path >humanity used to be on, but we are not back on it much yet, though I feel >we will be more and more (and free and open source software leads the >way), see: > "The Abolition of Work" > http://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/abolition.html > "The Original Affluent Society" > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901135,00.html > >Still, I might suggest you hated writing as a kid because you were forced >to do it by compulsory schooling before you were ready or willing? >Even if that was not the case for you, it certainly is the case for lots >and lots of people. > > We seem to be allowing ourselves radical, and against the grain thinking in all this.
So.. Understand then that there are those of us, who - with all good intentions - question the fundamental enterprise being discussed - the simple idea that technology has a pivotal, productive role to play in the endeavor of educating children (for some generally understood definition of "children"). Despite the Sworn Testimony of any number of Certified Geniuses, we are going to hold out for Evidence. Which is different from saying that for those children who are going to grow up in a technology laden society, it is better that they know how to push the right buttons than that they not. But very little intervention is required there, and certainly it should not be confused with education in a more meaningful sense. I, for one, happen to think that an enormous number of possibilities begin to open up later in the developmental game. That is, at the stage when the fact that an offered experience is a being mediated through a digital Mystery begins to become something we can expect to have accepted without a very wrong message attached. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
