On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:23:06 +0100, Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I love him.
I don't. > >It's also interesting to see GUIs with windows, mouse (etc.), which apparently >find their origin in is mind, probably comes from the desire to introduce >computers to children. Alfred Bork, now Professor Emeritus Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine 92697 had written an article in 1980 called "Interactive Learning" which began "We are at the onset of a major revolution in education, a revolution unparalleled since the invention of the printing press. The computer will be the instrument of this revolution." In 2000 he published: "Interactive Learning: Twenty Years Later" looking back on his orignal article and its optimistic predictions and admitting "I was not a very good prophet" What went wrong? Among other things he points (probably using a pointing device) at the pointing device """ Another is the rise of the mouse as a computer device. People had the peculiar idea that one could deal with the world of learning purely by pointing. """ The articles can be found here: http://www.citejournal.org/vol2/iss4/seminal.cfm One does not need to agree or disagree, it seems to me about this or that point on interface, or influence, or anything else. What one does need to do is separate hope from actuality, and approach the entire subject area with some sense of what is at stake, and with some true sense of the complexity of the issues, in such a way that at this stage of the game the only authentic stance is one of humility, Kay fails the humility test, dramatically. IMO. Art -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
