Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-03 Thread Bill Kerr
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > > From: K. K. Subramaniam > > > > On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 11:23:24 pm Alan Kay wrote: > >> what is more interesting is how well certain ways of thinking work > >> in finding strong models of phenomena compared to others. > > This is the par

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-02 Thread Alan Kay
ly 2, 2009 6:12:02 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Thursday 02 Jul 2009 5:19:58 pm Alan Kay wrote: > Knowledge - On the other hand, Henry Ford was not nearly as smart as > Leonardo, but was born at a very go

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 15:12, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Thursday 02 Jul 2009 5:19:58 pm Alan Kay wrote: >> Knowledge - On the other hand, Henry Ford was not nearly as smart as >> Leonardo, but was born at a very good time and in a good place, so he was >> able to combine engineering and product

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-02 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 02 Jul 2009 5:19:58 pm Alan Kay wrote: > Knowledge - On the other hand, Henry Ford was not nearly as smart as > Leonardo, but was born at a very good time and in a good place, so he was > able to combine engineering and production inventions to make millions of > inexpensive automobiles

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-02 Thread Alan Kay
Subramaniam To: Alan Kay Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:12:59 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote: >Your last sentence is somewhat paral

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > > ... As I said, I am a beginner at Sugar, so what I say now may need (a lot of?) > adjustment. > We should assure everyone that we all are beginners at Sugar (as Alan did.) "It's An Education Project", not a platform project. Sugar La

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote: >>Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like to >>say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research >>funding. But in the business case,

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 18:21, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:08:18AM -0500, David Farning wrote: >>> [thread about how to get kids interested in science] >> >> While this is an interesting topic.  It is getting pretty far from the >> goals of Sugar Labs, to create and promote a

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote: >Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like to >say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research >funding. But in the business case, this is actually a form of dissembling, >since an enormous perc

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:11 PM, David Farning wrote: > Thanks for tying in these projects. Could you share more about how > Sugar activity developers and content creators can leverage your work > to solve the problems you discuss earlier in the thread. > > david David, As I said, I am a beginne

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread David Farning
Some multi-player games are promising. > - Just today I had a conversation with a parent of a 3yo about larger > meaning of some of our Early Algebra activities. Understanding immediate > importance (rather than 12 years down the road, as Subbu said) of deep > thinking is a crucial piec

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Maria Droujkova
n the road, as Subbu said) of deep thinking is a crucial piece of activity adoption by parents and teachers. If this understanding is "packaged" with activities, they have much higher chances of surviving beyond the lab where they are developed. Cheers, MariaD > >> ____ > >>

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Alan Kay
tivites and content which can used, tested, and assessed in classrooms. thanks david >> >> >> >> From: Maria Droujkova >> To: Alan Kay >> Cc: K. K. Subramaniam ; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org >> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:1

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Alan Kay
bject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Alan Kay wrote: In theory, teachers are supposed to be a critical pool of significant adults, especially for the fields -- such as math and science -- in whi

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:08:18AM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> [thread about how to get kids interested in science] > > While this is an interesting topic. It is getting pretty far from the > goals of Sugar Labs, to create and promote a learning platform. I think it speaks to the components su

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread David Farning
vid >> >> >> >> From: Maria Droujkova >> To: Alan Kay >> Cc: K. K. Subramaniam ; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org >> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:18:34 AM >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritcha

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Maria Droujkova
art of the general lack of math in juvenile cultures, including social web sites. MariaD > > > -- > *From:* Maria Droujkova > *To:* Alan Kay > *Cc:* K. K. Subramaniam ; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:18:34 AM > > *Subj

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Alan Kay
Kay Cc: K. K. Subramaniam ; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:18:34 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Alan Kay wrote: > When I get together with other scientis

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-07-01 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Alan Kay wrote: > When I get together with other scientists, at some point I ask them how they > got started. For most, it wasn't because of school, but because of direct > contact with adults, often a relative who was a scientist, and some of the > older generatio

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread Alan Kay
tems. Best wishes, Alan From: K. K. Subramaniam To: Alan Kay Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:31:07 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 11:23:24 pm Alan Kay wrote

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 11:23:24 pm Alan Kay wrote: > what is more interesting is how well certain ways of thinking work > in finding strong models of phenomena compared to others. This is the part that interests me too ... > So, if we get > pneumonia, there are lots of paradigms to choose from, but

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread Alan Kay
__ From: K. K. Subramaniam To: Alan Kay Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:31:03 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 5:42:29 pm Alan Kay wrote: >

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 5:42:29 pm Alan Kay wrote: > ..There I should have said "modern science" to denote the kind of science > that Galileo and a few others > started, which Bacon discussed so well as a debugging process for what is > wrong with our brains/minds, and which Newton first showed how

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread Alan Kay
lan From: K. K. Subramaniam To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:11:14 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW On Monday 29 Jun 2009 10:01:34 pm Alan Kay wrote: >

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and ''Mastering'' Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread Alan Kay
quot; To: Alan Kay Cc: gregsmit...@gmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:37:47 PM Subject: Re: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and ''Mastering'' Educational SW I share Alan and Edward's concern that we are selling

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-30 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 29 Jun 2009 10:01:34 pm Alan Kay wrote: > (a) "the epistemology of science" is not at all what most people suppose, > and it is rather distant from the normal ways our minds are set up to work, Could you please elaborate it? Isn't the desire to seek the deeper principles behind things an

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and ''Mastering'' Educational SW

2009-06-29 Thread forster
I share Alan and Edward's concern that we are selling kids short, if physics education is all about just getting the 'right' answers but want to break down the question posed by Greg into some sub-questions: 1)Despite the limitations of education which focuses on getting the 'right' answers, mo

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
s, that Darwinism is just a competing religion. > Best wishes, > > Alan > > > From: Greg Smith > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 8:53:02 AM > Subject: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-29 Thread Alan Kay
minds are set up for, and this is how things have been since the Pleistocene. Best wishes, Alan From: Greg Smith To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 8:53:02 AM Subject: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Maste

[IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

2009-06-29 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Does anyone have experience or comments on the educational work of David Pritchard and David Korokowski, MIT Physicists? They created the Mastering Physics (and other subjects) software: http://www.masteringphysics.com/site/index.html Its commercial SW focused on College level learning a