Am 10.06.2010 19:34, schrieb Walter Bender: > ==Sugar Digest== > > 1. In their humorous treatise on political double-speak, ''Aristotle > and an Aardvark go to Washington'', Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein > define 'contextomy' as "a subtle variation on the straw-man argument" > where you ''yank'' your victim's words out of context. A straw-man > argument attributes an opponent to a position that in fact they do not > hold. Contextomy adds the twist that you de-contextualize a quote in > order to misstate (or overstate) their position. > > An example of contextomy is Mark Warschauer's post, ''OLPC: How Not > to Run a Laptop Program'' > [http://edutechdebate.org/one-laptop-per-child-impact/olpc-how-not-to-run-a-laptop-program/]. > The premise of Warschauer's article is that the 'OLPC model' is > "simply passing out XOs and getting out of children’s way." No > planning, no training, no teacher engagement... He goes on to say that > this is an ill-advised model that does not work. In the article itself > Warchauer never cites evidence that this is in fact the 'OLPC model', > but in a comment he refers the reader to the OLPC mission statement as > justification for his straw-man argument. Contextomy. > > I am not aware of any OLPC (or Sugar) deployment that in any way > resembles Warshauer's straw man, in the United States or elsewhere.
I hate to play devil's advocate here (naaa, not really;-) but one might argue that based on what little we know about OLPC in Peru, arguably the 2nd largest OLPC / Sugar project at the moment, this ("simply passing out XOs and getting out of children’s way.") is pretty much exactly what seems to be happening. > 2. Carolyn Meeks and I submitted the final report for the Gardner > Pilot Academy Sugar-on-a-Stick pilot. Is this report publicly available anywhere? Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep