[Edu-sig] Interactive learning: Twenty years later

[Gerrit Holl]

Introducing myself: http://groups.google.nl/groups?selm=36DD9F9B.26DE96C%40pobox.com
I am now, as you may have guessed, 17 years old, just finished my exams and
having progress with my first real game (http://pybrian.sf.net/). I have heard
a lot of programmers started with game(s) :)...

Arthur wrote:
> I disagree about the Internet.  My son would be much less "educated" without
> this exposure. Though I guess the fact is that it was all non-classroom
> time. There is in fact an entire child peer culture on the Internet.

Well, without the internet, I would not know Python. I would probably be
programming in QBasic. I would not know Linux. I would still be using
Dos/Windows. Internet is everything.

However, this is all about computers. Outside computers, I have learned
less, but not nothing. My first knowledge about politics came from the
Jeugdjournaal website. I would probably not me a member of the Dutch
Socialist Party because I would know far less about it. I would never
have been on television without my homepage.

I don't understand how anyone can deny Internet's educational influenc.

yours,
Gerrit.
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