On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: > > It will have other effects that we do not know about yet. > Gutenberg had no thought of supporting the Renaissance, the > Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, or anything else that followed > from printing. He wanted to print Bibles and other books that had been > written by hand before, in expensive editions for those who were > already buying books, mostly in the Church. Nobody knew that Aldus > Manutius, Martin Luther, and Galileo Galilei were coming, or any of > the others, nor what convulsions their productions would inspire. > > Nope. The French King that authorize Diderot to publish the Encyclopedia > ask him "who will cultivate our > fields IF the peasants come to the city to read the knowledge that comes > inside the Encyclopedia" and... > he ask too... "would not be too dangerous to put all the knowledge in the > hands of all people that can > read?"... In the end The King authorize Diderot's Encyclopedia and that was > in some way the start of a > whole process that will end with the bloody French revolution (the base of > our society). > More than 18,000 people were sent to the guillotine and at least the same > amount die in prison without trial.
Oh, yes, eventually Kings and Church leaders got the idea, but this is 300 years after Gutenberg. > I would like to see their textbooks and have a community critique of them. > > > I'd be interested to hear if the textbooks are made by the Peruvian > ministry, or by a private company. If its a private company, I expect > that getting them published online for this kind of analysis will be > hopeless :-( > > textbooks are written according to the instructions of the Ministry of > Education. Printed by the > goverment and delivered by the goverment (that is for public schools, > private schools need to > follow the curricula but they write and print its own books). > > Regards, > > Javier Rodriguez > Lima, Peru Well, let us see what the Ministerio de Educación Portal de Transparencia has to say. I found a few links of interest, but nothing on textbooks. Javier, could you inquire further for us? And did you get a price for those alternators? http://www.minedu.gob.pe COMPUTADORAS DE "UNA LAPTOP POR NIÑO" SON BIBLIOTECAS VIRTUALES http://www.minedu.gob.pe/fotosmed/index.htm Educación Tecnológica llega a escuelas más pobres de Lambayeque.- 28 Abr. 2008 Plan Estratégico Institucional 2007-2011 del Ministerio de Educación. Publicado el 13 Nov. 2007 Gives figures for schools without electricity, but no mention of computers. Actual Director de Investigación, Supervisión y Documentación Educativa (e): Armando Martín Barrantes Martínez R.M. Nº 0095-2008-ED (29 Ene. 2008) La Dirección de Investigación, Supervisión y Documentación Educativa es responsable de realizar investigaciones y supervisión educacional para el desarrollo de la calidad del sistema educativo. Depende del Viceministerio de Gestión Pedagógica. Actual Director de Tutoría y Orientación Educativa: María Teresa Ramos Flores (e) R.M. Nº 0024-2007-ED (01 Feb. 2007) Somos la Dirección del MED responsable de formular políticas, brindar asesoría técnica pedagógica, producir materiales educativos, realizar la coordinación intersectorial, así como, el seguimiento, evaluación e investigaciones de la Tutoría y Orientación Educativa que permitan a las Direcciones Regionales de Educación, Unidades de Gestión Local e Instituciones Educativas implementar un sistema de acompañamiento grupal e individual a los estudiantes con el fin de contribuir a su adecuada formación integral. ... Producir, publicar y distribuir materiales educativos para las diferentes modalidades de la educación relacionadas con la tutoría y orientación educativa. Actual Director de Educación Primaria: Jorge Julio Cobian Cruz (e) R.M. Nº 0187-2007-ED (09 May. 2007) -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
