On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:08 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > But as a teacher, you're under no obligation to be stellar or even > proficient with every tool. The constructivist approach encourages > students to explore into areas beyond the teacher's comfort zone or > time constraints (life is short -- that's a constraint). > > There's no sense of "threatened authority" when students do lightning > talks on topics or tools the teacher has not had much opportunity to > explore. > > Encourage students to explore in pairs or small teams. Don't forget > Pygeo as a possible resource. > > Go turtles! Go fractals! PIL is cool. I've used POV-Ray a lot, plan > to keep doing that (along with VPython of course). But that's just > me, YMMV (your mileage may vary). > > Kirby
thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts ! -- roberto _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
