I was at an EduSummit with Bender in Santa Clara not long ago. We're still gaga for turtles although at O'Reilly I've phased in the Tractor as the new turtle, just for some variety in what we call the avatar. Sounds more grown-up and lets me take advantage of social realism as a marketing tool.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/9026566473/in/album-72157625646071793/ (no tractors here, but you get the idea) Speaking of which, positive mention of Wikieducator in the Python News post I just published: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2015-May/011242.html Kirby On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Jim Tittsler <jtitts...@gmail.com> wrote: > Walter Bender's OLPC roundup this week mentions an interesting article > in The Atlantic about the future role of K-12 teachers in the face of > readily available and accessible resources: > > http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/the-deconstruction-of-the-k-12-teacher/388631/ > > I think I side more with Walter's skepticism, but am equally excited > with the quality of some of the resources available. (The license > terms of some of them are still quite off-putting, but impressive work > nonetheless.) > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
