[IAEP] Historian David McCullough endorses constructionism?

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> This interview in the Wall Street Journal discusses history education and
> a couple of interesting, interactive lessons which could be programmed. We
> don't have many history activities in Sugar
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576369421525987128.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion
>
> --
> Nick Doiron
>

A really neat addition to the words activity would be a section on
etymology. Where did that word come from? That would bring in a nice
section of history from around the world! I've written about this
before. If I knew enough about making the changes, I'd implement this
myself :-) http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.sugar/6786

cheers,
Sameer

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