Re: [IAEP] Reading (was Re: changes in outlook with Sugar

2009-07-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On 4 Jul 2009, at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > >> Edward, >> >> I think you have an interesting idea here.  It reminded me of the >> scene in _2001 A Space Odyssey_ where Hal 9000 is having the higher >> functions of his brain disco

Re: [IAEP] Reading (was Re: changes in outlook with Sugar

2009-07-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 4 Jul 2009, at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > Edward, > > I think you have an interesting idea here. It reminded me of the > scene in _2001 A Space Odyssey_ where Hal 9000 is having the higher > functions of his brain disconnected and he tries to sing "Daisy" while > he still has enough

Re: [IAEP] Reading (was Re: changes in outlook with Sugar

2009-07-04 Thread Jim Simmons
Edward, I think you have an interesting idea here. It reminded me of the scene in _2001 A Space Odyssey_ where Hal 9000 is having the higher functions of his brain disconnected and he tries to sing "Daisy" while he still has enough connected to do it. From my experience working with espeak I'd s

Re: [IAEP] Reading (was Re: changes in outlook with Sugar

2009-07-04 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Ed, I couldn't agree more. But the reason that there are so many non-reading-non-writing children and adults is that there are not enough adults around who understand how to do all this (imagine how wonderful it would be if all adults just understand what Montessori was really trying to do

[IAEP] Reading (was Re: changes in outlook with Sugar

2009-07-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 13:49, Alan Kay wrote: > [snip] >> >> But, if I were trying to make things happen with IAEP, I would try to do >> just a few main things, and one of them would be to make a >> program/user-interface which could do a great