2. Questioning “General” Education: Marvin Minsky has written another essay in his series about how our computers could help to advance our children’s educational development. The new essay begins with a quote from George Pólya.
2. Questioning “General” Education: Marvin Minsky has written another essay in his series about how our computers could help to advance our children’s educational development. The new essay begins with a quote from George Pólya.
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It is better to solve one problem five different ways,
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:''It is better to solve one problem five different ways,''
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than to solve five different problems one way.
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:''than to solve five different problems one way.''
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Questioning_General_Education. Previous essays are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Questioning_General_Education. Previous essays are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays.
3. Knight News Challenge: Sugar Labs applied for four Knight Foundation grants (all four a linked to from the DeploymentTeam page in the wiki).
3. Knight News Challenge: Sugar Labs applied for four Knight Foundation grants (all four a linked to from the DeploymentTeam page in the wiki).