On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Bill Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what is meant by a "big tent"
Personally, I am building tools so... ... > when I look at minsky's theory of mind I see that he supports multiple > models of thinking but also argues against models of thinking that he thinks > are incorrect or which emphasise only one way of doing things, Exactly. I try to work to build things that are open (and useful) to many users, many (most?) of which may not agree with me. If you ask me what do I think is best, I may have an opinion, but I am an adaptable person. My software[1] is adaptable too. A tiny bit opinionated perhaps ;-) , but flexibility is more important. After all, practitioners have enough trouble with real life, I am not going to add a small-mind-designed bit of software to their problems. [1] Note: Most of my education related work is on Moodle but I'm not its designer. So "my software" is "my sometimes interesting changes to Moodle". The mind behind Moodle is Martin Dougiamas, and it's from him that I've picked the "flexible" mantra. People use Moodle for teaching in very open ways... and other people use Moodle in incredible small-minded, beancounting-style corporate training. A very big tent indeed. Very glad to be reading Alan's posts in this thread too. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
