[Edu-sig] Beyond CP4E

[Arthur]

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. 

I don't understand it as a statement connected to education, though I
understand in the context of edu-sig as purporting to be.

Doesn't mean that there isn't something there.  Just that "eight year olds
can do it" certainly isn't enough to express it - at least to me.

Why in fact is this a step forward - as an educational matter for eight year
olds - compared to, say, folding paper?  Is that obvious to everyone else
but me?

I guess I can be as persistent in expressing this point of view and asking
these questions as there are posts to edu-sig persistent in ignoring that
someone active herein questions these assumptions.

Art