Hi Alan -- At 12:11 PM 4/7/2006, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Kevin Purcell wrote: > On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: > > > Kevin, > > > > First, to clarify a misconception: the goal of the project is kid's > > learning; not open source per se'. Fundamentally, this a project to > > help the *education* of as many children as possible. As I recall the whole Windows Icons Menus Pointers (WIMP) idea was intended for the kids, not as a replacement for the command line text driven interfaces but it found a much wider audience.
Yes, but not after the low pass noisy filter of MS.
The best toys are enjoyed by children of all ages ;)
That's what I thought http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf
There seem to be plenty of people interested in using OLPC in other ways. I'm very interested to keep watching and see how things progress.
Yes, and this is why I'm trying to base our learning environments on the net to minimize the negative effects of particular environmental choices.
Cheers, Alan
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