Re: [Edu-sig] [BULK] Re: Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread ajsiegel
- Original Message -From: Peter Chase Date: Friday, December 1, 2006 11:28 amSubject: Re: [BULK] Re: [Edu-sig] Who are these people???To: Arthur Cc: "edu-sig@python.org" Peter Chase wrote: Who was it that stated they would prefer to be governed by the first 500 people in the Cambridge t

Re: [Edu-sig] [BULK] Re: Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Chase
Who was it that stated they would prefer to be governed by the first 500 people in the Cambridge telephone book than the Harvard faculty? (I think it was WFB.) Same goes for MIT. We do not live exclusively or even mostly in a digital world. All the best parts are analog, especially the soft

Re: [Edu-sig] Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread Arthur
Arthur wrote: >And is only welcoming to people who are not like-minded. > >Why aren't you against it.??? > > Don't you see its the like-mindedness that is the root of the problem, and the root of my reaction to this Educational Philosophy because it contradicts everything it purports to repre

Re: [Edu-sig] Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread Arthur
Tom Hoffman wrote: >This is why I find it so amusing everytime someone writes that the >problem with OLPC is that it is just about hardware and there isn't >any educational philosophy behind it. > > Well we certainly agree about something. There is an educational philosophy behind it. And ap

Re: [Edu-sig] Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 12/1/06, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reading through some literature of > > The Future of Learning Group of the MIT Media Lab > > http://learning.media.mit.edu/projects.html > > There are astounding statements - in any sense one chooses to take the > word "astounding". > > My favorite

[Edu-sig] Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread Arthur
Reading through some literature of The Future of Learning Group of the MIT Media Lab http://learning.media.mit.edu/projects.html There are astounding statements - in any sense one chooses to take the word "astounding". My favorite is right near the top. Point 2, in fact. """ 2) established

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-12-01 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:23 , Dethe Elza wrote: > >> The main wiki page for OLPC emulation is here: >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation > > Alright. I didn't know about that. I had seen a blog post (maybe > yours, can't remember off-hand) that linked to images for VMWare. > But t