On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 15:12, K. K. Subramaniam<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 Jul 2009 5:19:58 pm Alan Kay wrote: >> Knowledge - On the other hand, Henry Ford was not nearly as smart as >> Leonardo, but was born at a very good time and in a good place, so he was >> able to combine engineering and production inventions to make millions of >> inexpensive automobiles. > As I look out of my window at the smog hanging over the city, I wonder if this > is really progress :-). But I digress .. >> Being around adults who have interesting outlooks works the best for most >> kids. > This was the crux of the point that the farmer raised. He didn't want his kid > associating with people whom he thought were ineffective as guides. BTW, his > feedback was crucial in fixing some of the lacunae in his school and helped > raise the bar. The kid is back in school and making good progress. >> I was brought up on a farm (a somewhat unusual one), but the farms in the >> region were not at all conducive for learning powerful outlooks, nor were >> the schools particularly. However, my grandfather was "a writing farmer" >> and had a huge library of books of all kinds in his farmhouse. > Parents set a minimum bar. As I pointed out earlier, a school is relevant only > to the extent that it can do better than that level; much better. >> 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. > This is exactly what we do (sikshana.blogspot.com) but in a way that differs > from Sugarlabs. Kids use computer as a tool to discover, to create, to > simulate ideas; not as an appliance to be owned.
I don't think Sugar Labs has much to say about who owns the computing device. I would personally be happy to work on Sugar so that people with differing views on that aspect benefit from it. Regards, Tomeu > Their projects are > accumulated on a personal flash chip, but the tool itself is shared (and > changes every year) and augments other learning aids in the schools. We don't > know if this is the best way to use a computer. We started with this > assumption and will tweak it as we learn more about its effectiveness. > > 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
