Re: LOGO-L> Reply to Brian's Logo Exchange Article

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

There are tons of links of this stuff.

Try an AltaVista "Advanced Search" on:

Water NEAR Bottle NEAR Rocket

But, this is were I found the critical answer under "Rocket
Basics".

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5403/

Regarding your comments about my view on Brian's article.

I think the title set the tone.

"Stop the internet, I want to get off"

He talked about examples where a student found the answer
to the problem he gave him on the internet and lost interest
as an example of dislike of the internet. Which is EXACTLY
like a student peeking in the back of the math book for the
answer before trying to work it through. Is that a reason to
take answers out of the back of books?

I think it's great subject and I understand his point of view.
I'm glad he brought the subject up because I know a lot of people
worry about the internet.

Now if the student instead downloaded dirty pictures instead
of finding the answer that's what I worry about on the internet.

I think he lumped "hype" and "dislike" in one article.

Jeff wrote:
> 
> George
> while I'm sure Brian can answer for himself, I don't read the article as
> proposing that the internet should NOT be available to children.
> What I take from it is a critique of and a caveat against the current
> vogue of 'the internet' being THE thing that computers are for, and THE
> reason for using computers in education.
> Jeff
> ps what's the URL for that water rocket stuff?
> J
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