<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Andreas --<br><br>This link was originally an email to the Sugar list, and it is about learning and education: <a href="http://www.vpri.org/pdf/TchSciToChi_RM_2007_003_a.pdf">http://www.vpri.org/pdf/TchSciToChi_RM_2007_003_a.pdf</a><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Alan<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Andreas.Trawoeger@wgkk.at" <Andreas.Trawoeger@wgkk.at><br>To: Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org><br>Cc: its.an.education.project@tema.lo-res.org<br>Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 4:45:54 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Its.an.education.project] untangling constructionism<br><br>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Hi Bernie!</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>
schrieb am 02.05.2008 11:15:41:</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">> /Please/, let's not re-discuss
constructionism and freedom in this list.</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">> Sugar is an educational environment
built around constructionism and it</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">> also happens to be free software.
Let's take this assertion as a matter</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">> of fact and discuss how it can
be improved.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">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.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">But on the other hand it still puzzles
me that there isnĒt ANY discussion about educational concepts and educational
content at all (and I have lost count on how many OLPC related mailing
list IĒm subscribed by now).</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">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. </font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">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).</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">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.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">cu andreas</font>
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