On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 13.01.2009, at 17:53, Samuel Klein wrote: > > >> Also see > >> > >> http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html > > > > yes... a great project to discuss, actually. > > > Indeed. Does anybody have contacts to them, to find out in more detail > why it was canceled? http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/media-centre/press-releases/shuttleworth-foundation-cancels-kusasa-project struck me as an honest attempt to summarise the reasons some discussion at tom hoffman's blog last year: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/kusasa-cancelled.html http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/thats-little-harsh.html Sadly if a project does require "advanced teacher skills" (which ought to be spelt out) it does often falter at that point - difficult to scale Papert proposed a new field of teacher training called humanistic computer studies, where: "In my vision of this field its professionals will need special combinations of competences. Apart from a foundation in scientific knowledge and technological skill they will need high degrees of psychological sensitivity and 'artistic' imagination. For the ones who will make the greatest social contribution will be those who know how to mold the computer into forms which people will love to use and in ways which will lead them on to enrichment and enhancement...." (from Solomon, p.133)
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