Re: [school-discuss] Feedback needed from teachers for the

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Anne-Marie MAHFOUF wrote:

> Hi,
> > examples of
> > the worst possible teaching methodologies imaginable ... pure,
> > mindless
> > rote learning. I don't think that many of the people creating
> these
> > programs are teachers or educators, they're tech heads.
>
> Yes, that's the point. That's why I wrote the mail. But if teachers
> just say it's crap and don't want to be involved, how do we
> (developers) actually make it good educationally?
>
> I know that teachers don't have many time (I myself have several
> children so it's not better).  If someone knows of a better
> mailing-list to send my mail, please do tell me.
>
> I don't find your mail very constructive and it's quite
> discouraging, to be frank.
>
> I apologize if the list is not adequat for my mail.

No, this list is exactly the proper place for such email.  Please don't
let one negative comment put you off the entire list!  I'm sure Michael
was just having a bad day.  Michael, Anne-Marie was asking a reasonable
question, I think--how to make this program and the others the KDE
Edutainment group is developing more useful to teachers and parents.
What things could be changed or added to this program to make it more
useful in your eyes?  One of the primary reasons we started Schoolforge
is to have these sort of "cross-pollination" discussions between
developers and users of educational software.  Let's not turn our backs
when developers are asking for just that sort of guidance.

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