[Its.an.education.project] untangling constructionism

[Andreas.Trawoeger at wgkk.at]

Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> schrieb am 02.05.2008 15:14:00:

> 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.

I've been in contact with a lot of teachers and parents which are strongly 
influenced by one of the many forms of progressive education. Talking with 
them is great and you can learn a lot by doing so. 
But what often drives you nuts is there total and absolute disrespect of 
any form of technology.

Which probably explains why a lot of geek seems to dislike any existing 
form of teaching and seek for better ways to use technology in education. 


cu andreas
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