Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > Actually, Squeak folks do fine. They're not flocking to Python, even > though Paul (unfortunatly for us) left a few years ago. You may be > confusing Alan Kay's reaching out to the Python community with what > the Squeak community does.
>Two very different pairs of shoes. Heartening to hear. > > Repeating this over and over does not actually make it true. People > in OLPC have been empirically studying working with kids and > computers longer than anyone else. I have looked. But I have not found. I think what there is what comes after an acceptance - a radical acceptance - of ideas of technological determinism. Fine-tuning the inevitable. I like geometry, and now architectures can be built from a few axioms. Here it happens to matter, a lot, whether those axioms are true, and how true. I haven't seen that work, Sorry. I should get along great with Paul. I happen to be a big unschooling guy myself. I encouraged it for my own son, after school. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
