Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-12-05 Thread Arthur
Kevin Driscoll wrote: Don't sweat the gatekeepers, nor their philosophical leanings. Deploy your skills at teaching with Python. Students who discover your code will benefit. Teachers who discover your code will benefit. Kevin Either its infrastructure will be designed to allow easy

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-12-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Dec 3, 2006, at 20:34 , Winston Wolff wrote: On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Arthur wrote: Over the years, what I have discovered about educational software is that most of it is junk, and the really useful things to connect kids with are the open-ended packages which provide an avenue