[Edu-sig] Interactive learning: Twenty years later

[Seabrook, Richard]

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From:	Jason Cunliffe [mailto:jason.cunliffe@verizon.net]
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To:	Arthur; edu-sig@python.org
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Subject:	Re: [Edu-sig] Interactive learning: Twenty years later
> 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.

hmm.. I don't think the idea of mice was that could 'do everything by
pointing'..

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Of course not -- I'm sure you remember the initial development
back in the 60s -- NASA/Ames? -- that created the mouse for
one hand and the chord-player for the other.  We were supposed
to learn one-handed typing with a set of 5 or 6 double-detent
keys so one hand would always be on the keyboard -- never happened!
Somebody re-invents the chord player about every 10 years or so --
you can find a half-dozen for sale over the Internet for those with
two-hand difficulties.  The mouse never was intended to be paired
with the standard keyboard.
Dick S.