On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 13:49, Alan Kay<[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > > But, if I were trying to make things happen with IAEP, I would try to do > just a few main things, and one of them would be to make a > program/user-interface which could do a great job of teaching a child to > read and write their native language without requiring any more from the > adults around them than a little encouragement. Part of the desired changes > in outlook could be made part of the stories and other materials that the > kid would encounter along the way (and part of the big change in outlook > that we are a part of is fluent reading of non-story materials in general > and about outlook changing ideas in particular).
Do you have already any vision about how to make that happen? I have seen lately several people interested in working on better tools for reading, may be a very interesting opportunity. Regards, Tomeu > Best wishes, > > Alan > ________________________________ > From: K. K. Subramaniam <[email protected]> > To: Alan Kay <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:12:59 PM > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and > "Mastering" Educational SW > > On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote: >>Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like to >>say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research >>funding. But in the business case, this is actually a form of dissembling, >>since an enormous percentage of all the GNP (and in fact GWP) comes >> directly >>as return from research. > The top 10% of learners don't need school. The bottom 10% need more than a > school. For the middle 80%, learning in school should be demonstrably better > than that out of school. A school is relevant only if it can detect and weed > out contexts that hinder learning (or have nothing to do with learning) as > quickly as possible. Otherwise people will vote with their feet. > > In one of our local public school parents meet, a poor farmer challenged, > "Why > should I retain my kid in this school? Can you show me one student who > studied > here and became somebody in life? In the field, I can teach him to raise at > least one crop a year". For him, there was lot more of physics in the farm > than in school textbooks. > > Subbu > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
