[Edu-sig] Articles of possible interest

[Arthur Siegel]

> Yow! Ther's an interesting idea. But you know, I want to argue against it
> -- LambdaMOO is such a nice system already, and has a very, very nice
> language (though, appropriately, much more limited in domain than Python),
> what I think we maybe need is Python-MOO integration... maybe a MOO-Zope
> integration. THAT would be truly cool.


Would be.

My hope is that is whatever is done is done with as little overhead as
possbile.

My niece's radio.  She's wasn't going to use it to listen to her favorite
group.
But was excited and proud.  She knew that this was a self-sufficient stand
alone
real working radio, that she had built. Core technology.

Why am I so convinced that getting the kids as close to the core as we can
is what would both most excite them and be most responsible as educators?

Whether 3D or chat or anything else.

I understand well its all a matter of degree, as we has been said.

And am trying not to be a fundamentalist.

But I do believe that Python, IDLE, and maybe 100 lines of code could be a
great curriculum.