[Its.an.education.project] untangling constructionism

[Alan Kay]

Hi Andreas --

This link was originally an email to the Sugar list, and it is about learning and education: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/TchSciToChi_RM_2007_003_a.pdf

Cheers,

Alan


----- Original Message ----
From: "Andreas.Trawoeger at wgkk.at" <Andreas.Trawoeger at wgkk.at>
To: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
Cc: its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 4:45:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Its.an.education.project] untangling constructionism


Hi Bernie! 

Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
schrieb am 02.05.2008 11:15:41: 
> /Please/, let's not re-discuss
constructionism and freedom in this list. 
> Sugar is an educational environment
built around constructionism and it 
> also happens to be free software.
 Let's take this assertion as a matter 
> of fact and discuss how it can
be improved. 

I agree with you. It doesn't make sense
to spend hours discussing if constructionism is the one and only way to
do education or not. 

But on the other hand it still puzzles
me that there isn’t ANY discussion about educational concepts and educational
content at all (and I have lost count on how many OLPC related mailing
list I’m subscribed by now). 

There are many educational concepts
that are very similar to what Sugar would like to achieve (like the work
of Maria Montessori or Celestin Freinet). These concepts and many others
are currently ignored by the overall Sugar development..  

For an outside observer which is familiar
with these concept this could lead to the conclusion that Sugar currently
ignores ANY of the existing educational concepts (including constructionism). 

Nobody will expect a software developer
to be an expert in something like the Montessori Method. But not having
a basic understanding of them is like someone who would like to become
a Linux Kernel hacker, but never has heard about the make command. 


cu andreas 



      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better friend, newshound, and 
know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.  Try it now..  http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/attachments/20080502/3b1f3d9a/attachment-0001.htm