[IAEP] changes in outlook with Sugar (was Re: Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW)

[Jecel Assumpcao Jr]

Alan Kay wrote:

> One whole route that was worked out almost 50 years ago was by
> O.K. Moore at Yale in the late 50s and early 60s -- it was called
> the "talking typewriter" (which was a hidden grad student) -- has
> many of the initial seeds for thinking about how to do this, and has
> quite a few studies giving quite a bit of date about how children
> behave in the environment that Moore set up. "Writing to Read",
> done by one of Moore's disciples and sponsored by IBM many years
> ago, was more real, but also omitted some of the key principles that
> Moore had discovered. This program, among other things, needed
> a small personal machine like the XO to create the "autotelic
> environment" which Moore felt was so important.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Edison_Talking_Typewriter

has a link to an article about this project. "O. K. Moore" is,
unfortunately, hard to search for. "Omar Moore" yields more interesting
results.

-- Jecel