On 1/21/07, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think what there is what comes after an acceptance - a radical > acceptance - of ideas of technological determinism. Fine-tuning the > inevitable.
I think in the 1960s there might have been some determinism around a revolution, but when that didn't pan out, you have lots of nostalgia for "might have been futures", forking off from promising trends in the 1970s. By the 1980s, with the K-12 math writers pretty much turning their backs on computer languages, we're talking disaster zone and oblivion. Now I sense a contingent waiting in the wings, deus ex machina, willing to at least stage a comeback of computer languages in math teaching. But it's not so much SmallTalk behind the scenes as it used to be, if it ever was. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
