Ted Roche wrote:
Ted Roche wrote:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/42315/32A73B64F8DC
FYI, for those who like to measure such things, we got 21 members in the
first 24 hours.
And in the second 24 hours, membership rose to 30.
And over the holiday, the total is now 33 and one pending. Now
Any I've missed? If I ever have children they're definitely going to
have easy access LEGO and random electronic components.
Rubber-band powered airplanes made of balsa and tissue paper (today the
tissue paper is sometimes replaced with ultra-thin plastic, which can
actually be made by
On Nov 23, 2007 9:47 PM, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No More Edisons?
I find sweet irony in the tone of this essay, given that it was
re-posted in a forum whose nominal focus is an operating system
created by an upstart college kid. :-)
-- Ben
On Thursday 22 November 2007 21:18, you wrote:
I'm sure you can't MAKE kids interested in engineering, but there are
certainly classes of toys that a great many of the more geek-inclined
people I know remember fondly.
LEGO
Erector sets
Tinkertoys
Lincoln Logs
Piles of junk + imagination
Perhaps our society has been wealthy for too many generations. Few
young people seem think about what they want to accomplish in life.
Everything they could want is there - or so it might appear.
And too many distractions. John Taylor Gatti, NYC teacher of the year
a few times was
