On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Sebastian Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi iaep, > Was reading an interesting article today: > https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-study-shows-success-different-learning-styles-computer-science-class > > With all the reflection data in our Journals, perhaps these machine learning > algorithms can tall us something about ourselves? > > I found it very interesting how there are clearly many paths to acquiring > mastery in programming. > > It makes sense that the computer be assessing and feeding back to the > learner. > > Rather interesting I found as well were the sink-holes (so called "walls" of > learning, where student's bump and find it hard to continue without undoing > some steps). I definitively know the feeling. "They open the door for > developing systems to encourage students to go down more fruitful paths > before they become lost in the programming weeds." > > If I may comment one more thing. > > Perhaps one area often left out in this kind of discussion, is the > importance of social values, pointed out by the Free Software movement of > which we are a part, and many volunteers such as Flavio. What is the purpose > of learning to program? What is the responsibility of one who knows these > techniques? > > I venture that having a bunch more of proprietary startups with crappy apps > and (especially) abusive business models, is *definitively*, not the way to > go forward as humanity. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Good observations, Sebastian. As we continue to debate the future of Sugar, I posit that the culture of software freedom has to stay at the core of our activities (what we do as a community and what the users of our software do). Writing vanilla Apps for Android might be a good business model, but it is not going to have any lasting impact. We need to aim higher and, while it maybe a slower path of growth, not compromise on the values that make us relevant to learning. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
