[Edu-sig] Beyond CP4E

[Arthur]

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> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:08 AM
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> Subject: [Edu-sig] Beyond CP4E
> 
> Dethe writes -
> 
> >Eight-year-olds can learn to use these tools to design
> >3-D objects, build them, program the microcontroller, etc.
> 
> Assuming this is accurate...
> 
> I can understand that as statement as to industrial design - one can be
> productive having no more than the capacity of an 8 year old.

Could that as well be a statement arguing against its educational value, and
more generally about the education value of giving emphasis to using
machines - industrial design advancing to the stage where we can assume that
machines will just be usable, easily enough when the time comes to need to
use them.

And we need not pre-suppose what particular machine might be or become
relevant to a particular student's life. 

So we are free to move on to other things, in good enough conscience.

Art