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

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:27:11 EDT, Arthur writes:
>I don't believe that we should expect our educational visionaries to be
>designing computer interfaces, and vice versa.
>
>Art

Why not?  It seems clear that most people who create computer interfaces,
as a profession, are merely copying what other have done before, and most
of what others have done before has been horrid.  When you see a terrific
interface, you startle, and think 'oh how wonderful'.  Where do you
expect us to get visionary computer interfaces?  I think that educators
would be a most likely choice -- anybody who has the notion 'how do people
learn to do this' is already head and shoulders above the rest of the world
who never gives it a moments thought, or concludes 'because it is like
what they have seen before' is the last word in computer interface design.

Puzzled,
Laura