[Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

2009-05-20 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
http://www.acm.org/ Regards, Gerry ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

Re: [Edu-sig] Many Laptops per Adult

2009-01-11 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
If the idea is shared laptops, probably a single laptop configuration would suffice for the following reasons: -- it's likely that most adults are barely competent to configure an operating systems -- administrators need to be able to maintain the revolving door laptops with minimal, consistent

Re: [Edu-sig] Many Laptops per Adult

2009-01-11 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
Scott, regarding your vision problems, from your e-mail header, it looks like you're using the virus a.k.a. Windows (User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914)). Me too. My bread and soy butter world is Gates based. Windows has options to help your text

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core ComponentofScience, Math Education

2009-01-01 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
Actually, I was not talking about prodigies of any age. The idea was not about hitting a pre-teen with ... J, rather it's about using J as a workbench with which educators can rapidly mentor your average student to experiment and grow with J and with the J IDE. In the following example, I

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component ofScience, Math Education

2008-12-26 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
Edward Cherlin, in part: APL is coming. Therefore, J, APL'S successor in ASCII, makes sense in this regard. J has a small footprint and is brilliantly programmed by Roger Hui et al. Further, Ken Iverson was a teacher until his last breath*. The J IDE makes a great environment for teacher and