[MWForum]Hello
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Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:05:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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<DIV>The EX backpacks are so elegant, and are perfect for publishing perfected and polished procedures abroad of the classroom and of continents! But before one purchases a Stradivarius, and goes to Juilliard, one has to earn their way through middle school. Which is a roundabout way of saying the overhead required to employ the backpack orchestration does indeed detract from the spontaniety, from the improvisatorial elasticity of interactive trial-and-error which, after all, is the strongest learning opportunity inherent in constructionism. In America, where packaging and outer appearance hase become a religion, we perceive invariably that far too much effort seems spent on engineering a perfect book-cover at the expense of the substance and the learning required to refine the thoughts........... </DIV>
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<DIV>Why not defer allowing the use backpacks until a student's work, whether individual or collaborative is brought to high degree of finalization, and no more (or few more) experimental revisions are necessary. </DIV>
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<DIV>The good news though, is that I robustly suspect that before long, as many of us who are experienced MW teachers, programmers and adventurists, cross the river over into the use of the EX platform, that this forum will no doubt construct and host a large and elegant library of backpackable routines to share in eleven languages and dozens of countries. </DIV>
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<DIV>Stay tune and anticipate such exciting collaborative module authoring. It's going to happen!</DIV>
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<DIV>Harvey </DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: "Burke, Bridget -CKJH" <BRIDGETBU@CKSD.WEDNET.EDU><BR>Sent: Mar 10, 2005 3:53 PM <BR>To: mwforum@lists.mathcats.com <BR>Subject: [MWForum]Hello <BR><BR></DIV><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"><ZZZMETA content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name="GENERATOR"></ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=302535122-10032005>I teach junior high MW. I am having a bit of discussion with my students on when and how to use the backpacks. I would rather they use the procedures tab because the backpack are so time consuming when you need to debug a program.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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