tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-14386025073429902832008-05-14T08:50:00.002-04:002008-05-14T09:05:39.360-04:00<p><a href="http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi">Ivan</a> and <a href="http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/04/obligatory-sugar-post.html">I</a> seem to be on the same page regarding the future of Sugar:</p><blockquote><p>The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning — that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open — with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable.</p><p>Choosing to reinvent the desktop UI paradigm means we are spending our extremely overconstrained resources fighting graphical interfaces, not developing better tools for learning. … It is most important to recognize that the graphical paradigm changes are inessential both to our core mission and to the Sugar core ideas.</p></blockquote><p>On the other hand, I think the first half of his post obscures more than it reveals. I'll be happy if I never have to listen to programmers point/counterpoint on "constructionism" again. It is difficult to calculate how much Seymour Papert's incapacitation crippled the heart of OLPC's mission.</p>Tom Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.com