Hi, kcrisman escribió:
[...] > Just to comment on this, I would say that many of the people who use > Sage for research are also very committed to making it better for > education. William in particular has put in many, many hours > improving things that almost certainly do not make computing L- > functions of Abelian varieties easier! And there are many others. > BUT you are very right that the funding mechanisms are not in ed's > favor. This is because it is easy (relatively speaking) to get NSF/ > others to fund making some state-of-the-art thing in a given field, > but not at all so easy to get anyone to fund something that M*s > already do quite well. > > Add to that the fact that most of the people who would be most > passionate about the teaching aspects have heavy teaching loads and/or > a weak computer science background, and the result is not surprising. > Ted K. is probably quite unusual in coming at it from the CS side, and > you can see it in that he can create something like MathRider! I > couldn't imagine that in my wildest dreams. Most of the people I've > talked to who really want to improve the ed side have some computer > background, but not the expertise to do really amazing things. Jason > G. and David J. are probably exceptions in this regard - and I'm > really thankful for them! Also some of the grad students and > undergrads who have worked on Sage have done quite remarkable things, > though of course they don't have to teach a 3-3 (or higher) load > yet ;) > > But I too hope for future things in this regard. See > http://wiki.sagemath.org/dayscambridge2 for a tiny step in the > direction you are suggesting, and thanks for your thoughts on it. > > - kcrisman > Nice to see the coming Sage Days 18 with a education day :). That's a way to get funding for the things that other M*s don't do but at the same time putting education as an important matter. I have not seen the calling for the education day, but surely this or the others Sage Days will have this and people from "both sides", research and education, talking more. Cheers, Offray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
