> www.allianceforchildhood.net/computers > > Please spend a few minutes there. >
I'll be spending more than a few. > You're the guy spending the bucks for us, so you have the burden. > I'm not pushing any one size fits all approach. If groups want to develop computer-free video-free modes of education, like we had in the good old days, and field test them voluntarily, that's fine. This call for a "moratorium on further introduction of computers in early childhood" (quoting from above web site) is something a given school or community might well call for and achieve. Some people don't want to eat meat. The permutations are endless. Fine by me. Waldorf has a lot of nice features. So does Montessori. I'm all for the power to opt out. But I want the power to opt out of whatever they're going to do when they opt out. I might want to opt in. I develop curriculum for a more screen intensive lifestyle. Computers and digicams are a given. Yes, lack of physical exercise is sometimes a problem and needs to be addressed. Using screens a lot doesn't preclude that. > But please go beyond the "why would God lead us to the vPod its if its > just going to be another way to watch re-runs" argument - which I > always sense is somehow at the bottom of your point of view. You do what you think is healthy and wise, and see how much you're willing to trust your kids and grandkids when they form their own judgments on these matters. That's your business and it's not my plan to interfere. I have better things to do than try to be everyone's parent. I'm just some guy. Don't paint me as trying to force my curriculum down your throat. I don't have any investment in making you do as I do. I'm a recruiter, yes, but that doesn't mean I think others have no rights to the same field. I'm here to compete. I relish competition. I don't *want* to be the only game in town (I'd *hate* that). > I'd love to, except that I don't think PyGeo is very interesting if that > is how it is to be used. It is meant to be used to create constructions, > deliberately (no mice allowed), and then to interact with what it is one > has oneself constructed. Again, if you're offering PyGeo as an open source tool, I hope you're not going to be too control freaky about how other people use it. Maybe some studio wants to generate a bunch of MPEGs around famous theorems in projective geometry -- nothing directly to do with programming or Python. If I were you, I'd be proud to see my tool used in this way. The future is nothing if not surprising, always. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
