On 11/29/06, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote: > > > I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy, but a toy for the > > wrong follks, folks who have enough toys, rooms full of them, > > lost in > > their toys, blinking and whizzing hynoptic. > > Would you agree that the software (and not the greenish toy-like > hardware) would make all the difference between that little machine > being a toy and it being a serious platform for education? Why, then, > are so few folks working on actual educational software for it? So > far, you can count the specifically educational activities on the > OLPC on one hand. Even if you lost most fingers.
I would point out that writing educational software for people who don't have computers isn't very useful either, and that once kids have computers (on a common, free platform) there's a lot more incentive to write educational software for them. --Tom _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
