On 8/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cynical Arthur would welcome the ability to exercise his imagination in the > creation of animated cartoons that expressed his imagination, by way of > computer technology.
Good. Cynical Kirby looks forward to viewing some of Cynical Arthur's cartoons. > Except that his imagination is his own (everybodys' is) , and he would > expect to need to wait until an appropriate age and undergo some serious > study before such an ability were accessible to him. Yes, Arthur knows that skills come in exchange for hard work. Even prodigies need to practice. Use it or lose it. > The kind of study, in fact, that I suspect college students at CMU expect to > have to undertake to be able to utilize Panda3d - a serious tool for doing > this > kind of thing. Yes, Panda3d is hard and you need some adult-level patience to master the tool (which I really haven't by the way). But is that any reason to not look for *much easier* ways to the same ends? Like, if we weren't *lying* about wanting to actually see their cartoons, shouldn't we *stop* with the bait and switch? I think you're pointing to the *means* (hard work) as the worthy goal. I'm agreeing but saying: let's not lose site of the *ends* (lots of good cartoons -- some of them by kids much younger than could make them before (that in itself is new territory)). I think there will always be that next sought-after skill at the other end of some hard work rainbow. But I'm not into making kids sweat it just to do what we did, an earlier generation. I *want* them to look at all our hard work... and make it look easy (call me an optimist, but I think we're still evolving as a species). They'll have *new* hard stuff to tackle, not just the same stuff we did (like, how to make those cartoons *funny* -- a whole new ball game). > > Young cynical Arthur had a good sense of when he was been humored and > indulged, and never really liked it much.. A lot of my take and talk is > trying to be > sensitive to young Arthur's needs - since I have no reason to believe that > they were extraordinary, nor was he. > > Arthur I like your young Arthur and want him to be pandered to too. :-D I think we share a certain affinity for "no frills" experiences that pack a wallop, in terms of straight information content. You want the jet boat, not the cushy cruise liner. Where I think this must be heading is towards a more individualized curriculum, with lots of trail heads. It's still a mix of live and in-the-can recordings, but you're freer to string the beads in the order you like, instead of the order some distant Kid Factory decided was best for you. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
