[Edu-sig] A suggestion for a high school programming project

[Jordan Johnson]

On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 06:48  PM, Arthur wrote:
> IMO, there is a very important distinction to be made between exposing
> students/kids/whatever to tools built for scientists by scientists and
> "learning environments" of various kinds.

Having tried a couple of things along those lines, I'd say that's a 
good idea, with the big caveat that there sometimes are usability 
issues that get in the way.  (We technically-minded folk aren't always 
the best about cleaning up the interfaces...)

That said, it's even worse to find usability problems in the "learning 
environments" you speak of--and there are those out there, too.

jmj

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