Re: [Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada) wrote: heading F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted) http://www.acm.org/ Also note, in this issue Mark Guzdial has a Viewpoints article entitled Education Teaching Computing to Everyone. The

Re: [Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

Scott: The media course used Python as the language.  The new media course achieved an 85% success rate for the three groups above, and had women succeeding at the same or better rates than the male students. Interesting stuff Scott. My eldest did a combined theater-CS major in Tennessee

[Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

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Re: [Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

Hey thanks for the pointer Gerry, I'll be interested in others' opinions of that analysis. Mine is somewhat different in that I think real tangible evidence of a positive future is a threat to moneyed interests pushing a different agenda, otherwise we'd have seen XOs on Tony the Tiger cereal