[Edu-sig] slashdot: Teaching Primary School Students Programming?

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From: kirby urner 
Date: Monday, August 28, 2006 1:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] slashdot: Teaching Primary School Students Programming?
To: Arthur , "edu-sig at python.org" 

> On 8/28/06, Arthur wrote:
> 
> > The solution is simple - simplicity, less environment.
> >
> > Why is this obvious to me, and lost on the MIT folks?
> >
> > Art
> 
> Is it the MIT folks behind the slick new Logo environments, with all
> the eye candy? I'm not up to date.
> 
> I think we need to respect that people have different career goals,
> even when very young. To be a "prodigy" doesn't mean you're a cookie
> cutter copy of the "prodigy" in the seat next to you.

Cynical Arthur suspects that much of the problem has to do with the career goals of folks
at MIT, not those of the very young.

I won't expand on that without being asked to.

Art
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