Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Which of Papert's is definitive? On Apr 23, 2017 10:54 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>>

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last >> year... Is Mindstorms the definiti

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last > year... Is Mindstorms the definitive work? > > If sugar is "against school", by which I mean is not anti sch

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last > year... Is Mindstorms the definitive work? > > If sugar is "against school", by which I mean is not anti school but > critical, is that worth encoding in the mis

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last year... Is Mindstorms the definitive work? If sugar is "against school", by which I mean is not anti school but critical, is that worth encoding in the mission more explicitly? Cheers Dave On Apr 23, 2017 1:09 PM, "Walter

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 109, Issue 52

2017-04-23 Thread Tony Anderson
we follow a pace of natural life economical in material cost. These lessons cannot be learned in schools as they are. School is like starting life with a 12-year jail sentence in which bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and wi

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > What motivates me to contribute to sugar labs is an intuition that it is a > reasonable response to the topics raised in the following essay. > > Since we are talking about the mission, I wonder if my intuition is > correct. Is the

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi What motivates me to contribute to sugar labs is an intuition that it is a reasonable response to the topics raised in the following essay. Since we are talking about the mission, I wonder if my intuition is correct. Is the mission of sugar labs to counter schoolteaching as described below? Th