[Its.an.education.project] untangling constructionism

[Bernie Innocenti]

Andreas.Trawoeger at wgkk.at wrote:

> 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.

Here in Italy we had Montessori's face printed on the 1000 Lire banknote
for years... but I was force-fed subjects I disliked when I went to school
and had to hide my computer books below the desk in order to study what I
liked.

Sorry for the rant... OLPC was supposed to be a medicine for this kind
of disease in education (in addition to the complete lack of education,
which is worse).  The lowercase olpc of which we are all part, still is.


> 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.

I think the contents of our wiki proves otherwise, but OLPC's wiki has
been somewhat hidden from outside observers.

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