[Edu-sig] "Croquet Project" and Python ?

[francois schnell]

> To clarify here, the OP was talking about critical
>mass, implying something large scale.  That there are individual kids with
>an inclination to be precocious in regard to exploring this area, and
>resources available to those kids - is quite nice.  Its just that I see no
>particular large scale implications here. 
>  
>
Like I just tried to explain in an other mail in this thread, I wonder 
If one of the breaks in education is a problem of scale.
What If we pass (with proper ICT/tools/substrate I don't know yet)  from 
a  "classroom" of 30 students to 100 millions students:  pure Chaos ? 
I'm not completely sure.

Critical mass is one of the essential factor to have an emergent system 
(very efficient and organized but decentralized)
I find the researchs on this field very interesting.
I read lately a book on the subjects with some quite good explanations:
EMERGENCE  / Steven Johnson
"The connected lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software"

The second factor to have an emergent system is the quality/efficiency 
of  communication tools (pheromones for ants).
The society of information prvide them now or tomorow.

I think we are living an exciting period of time were a lot of things 
will change in the  next  decades.

How can we take advantage of all that to  "spread" intelligent  
awareness  of science and  education  ? I don't know  yet.
But what I'm sure is that there is a huge need of communication++ for 
the young's which is too often underestimated.
Who predicated the explosion of SMS for mobiles ? Not me.


francois schnell



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