Arthur wrote: > And within this, I think picking on children as a target is particularly > problematic - precisely because expertise in the subject of the > education of children is so hard to evaluate. Anyone can claim it. Even > computer programmers.
Piaget is a theorist. Let's assume an excellent theorist. Let's assume the best there is. The leap that the computer is somehow central to an implementation of his ideas is an unnecessary, arbitrary, and somehow generally accepted leap. Very strange to me. It would seem to be more reasonable to start with a working assumption that in working with children we should be working with materials and objects that have immediacy and obviousness that computers do not and cannot have. To think that it is just a matter of rigging the interface correctly and it is all win/win form there - the word ridiculous happens to work for me. As with all matters with children, I claim no particular expertise. And am willing to be wrong. That is different from being willing to shut up until I am given a good reason to conclude that I am wrong. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
