LiveCode Player for 5.5

[Pete]

Hi Alejandro,
I think the discussion of whether education brings everyone down to the
lowest common denominator is a different topic!

I guess my original point, perhaps not well enough explained, was that,
according to the study in my local paper here in California, using iPads to
replace text books costs about 4 times more than using the hard copy text
books.  Personally, I can't find any justification for California schools
spending that extra money when there's hardly any evidence that using iPads
improves the quality of eduction at all, never mind 4-fold.  I don't know
enough about it to judge whether the problem is hardware, software, good vs
bad teachers, lack of teacher training , or any other cause.

But I'm not a teacher and I tend to view these things more simplistically
than perhaps I should.

Pete

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have read the messages in this thread and please, correct me
> if I understand wrong:
>
> 1) Too many students and teachers are too "inexperienced" (not dumb)
> to use the available computer educational tools in their institution.
>
> 2) Most of the digital educational applications aim to teach using only
> the lower (or lowest) skills available to all participants.
>
> Surely, I am interpreting all this information in the wrong way because
> my conclusion is that education (as described here) is effectively dumbing
> down
> all the participants (teachers and students alike).
>
> How many of you are aware that you could run Livecode (including all
> externals and Quicktime) from a Portable device as a USB pendrive
> or Secure Digital Card or even from media as a Rewritable CD or DVD?
>
> No plugin or installation. Just click and run:
>
>
> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Running-LiveCode-and-Quicktime-as-virtual-applications-td4411011.html#a4430008
>
> In this computer lab:
>
> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2733273854751.2150939.1344437396&type=3
> the IT manager used Metacard Free Starter Kit to create exams
> that students run from a CD. He opened the exam (a stack), take out
> the CD and repeat the procedure in each machine. In this way, the exams
> only runs in RAM and the students could not copy or save to the
> computer. It works fine for him for many years...
>
> Al
>
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Pete
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