On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 13.01.2009, at 17:53, Samuel Klein wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
&gt;&gt; Also see<br>
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&gt;&gt; <a href="http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html" target="_blank">http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html</a><br>
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&gt; yes... a great project to discuss, actually.<br>
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</div>Indeed. Does anybody have contacts to them, to find out in more detail<br>
why it was canceled?</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/media-centre/press-releases/shuttleworth-foundation-cancels-kusasa-project">http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/media-centre/press-releases/shuttleworth-foundation-cancels-kusasa-project</a><br>
struck me as an honest attempt to summarise the reasons<br><br>some discussion at tom hoffman&#39;s blog last year:<br><a href="http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/kusasa-cancelled.html">http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/kusasa-cancelled.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/thats-little-harsh.html">http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/thats-little-harsh.html</a><br><br>Sadly if a project does require &quot;advanced teacher skills&quot; (which ought to be spelt out) it does often falter at that point - difficult to scale<br>
<br>Papert proposed a new field of teacher training called humanistic computer studies, where:
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&quot;In my vision of this field its professionals will need special
combinations of competences. Apart from a foundation in scientific
knowledge and technological skill they will need high degrees of
psychological sensitivity and &#39;artistic&#39; imagination. For the ones who
will make the greatest social contribution will be those who know how
to mold the computer into forms which people will love to use and in
ways which will lead them on to enrichment and enhancement....&quot;
(from Solomon, p.133)</blockquote></div></div>