Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > Personally I'm not into Waldorf education as a big picture, but I like a > lot of the parts, especially their stand against media for young kids. I'd > say the same about the Montessori method too (the other big well known > alternative).
How did we get to Waldorf??/ Interesting. The Alliance for Childhood is, I believe, affiliated """ New report says government and high-tech industry foist expensive and unproven technology on schools, hurting children and undermining real technology literacy """ http://www.allianceforchildhood.net/projects/computers/index.htm Looking for friends, I had just (like yesterday) reached out to a technology writer whose work I admire, and who I believe, is influenced by some of the thinking coming out of the Steiner folks. As it happens, I have admired and studied some of the work on projective geometry that somehow Steiner's thinking has provoked. OTOH, (and as I related to the writer who I reached out to) when this provoked me into attempting to read Steiner directly, I ran into a jaw-dropping no go. Not for me. Art > And then of course there is bablefish automatic translator, > http://babelfish.altavista.com/ > though it is obviously an awkward mechanical translation: > http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_de&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.johntaylorgatto.com > [That link translates a page on Gatto's site from English to German and > continues to translate as you click on links; it breaks sometimes] > See also: > http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_de&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.johntaylorgatto.com%2funderground%2findex.htm > http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_de&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.johntaylorgatto.com%2funderground%2ftoc1.htm > > It's really interesting to at least try bablefish; it seems a miracle it > works at all; I've used it a couple of times for translating Spanish sites > about programming -- it's a funny experience to suddenly have such a site > in a different language make (some) sense.. > > All the best. > > --Paul Fenrhout > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
