LiveCode Player for 5.5

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Mar 28 19:14:57 EDT 2012


I have noticed in talking to people about funding education that there is an almost irresistible tendency to presume that if you spend more money doing something, the results are bound to improve, even if only a little bit. This is of course, absurd. Some of the greatest minds we know in the last 2 centuries were raised and educated in what we would consider today in California to be completely unacceptable conditions. I was educated in the third richest county in the nation, and I am little more than an idiot. ;-)

Bob


On Mar 28, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Pete wrote:

> 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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