Bert- Just for fun, here is a link through Babelfish for edusig auf Deutsch: :-) http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_de&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fmail.python.org%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2fedu-sig
See for example: "[ Edu-Edu-sig ] Slashdot Artikel: Programmieren Zicklein Jedoch?" http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_de&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.python.org%2Fpipermail%2Fedu-sig%2F2006-April%2F006308.html Or January's posts: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_de&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fmail.python.org%2fpipermail%2fedu-sig%2f2007-January%2fthread.html I'd be curious what a native German speaker had to say about the quality or usefulness of these automatic translations of edusig? Useful? Confusing? Useless? --Paul Fernhout Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Am Jan 18, 2007 um 6:45 schrieb Paul D. Fernhout: > >> so no matter how cheap you made distributing a >> diversity of text books or related educational materials, schools would >> not want any but the standardized ones to be used at the standardized >> times. The point of conventional schooling was then ansd still is to >> produce a standard graded product, not amplify differences. As I >> point out >> in my previously linked essay >> "Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools" >> http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html >> computers linked to the internet have revolutionized just about every >> area >> of life today related to information access and education -- except, >> ironically, schooling. I think there is a reason. Schools are *actively* >> in the way of everything the better side of the world wide web >> promises -- >> diversity, expression, disintermediation, innovation, etc. > > > > Hi Paul, > > I *very* much enjoy reading your thoughts on technology and education. > I wish they were in German, to be able to show them to people here ... > Do you know any German writer with similar views? > > - Bert - _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
