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Re:Dynamicland by JKCalhoun on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:34PM (#15963998)
Cool, but I still prefer "Books Not Apps" for our children.
Re:Dynamicland by 659087 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:55PM (#15966365)
So do many of the Silicon Valley executives who are pushing their privacy invading products on schools. That's why they send their own children to private "tech-free" schools to prevent them from being exposed to the same products that pay their parents' bills.
Re:Dynamicland by bvfanboy3 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:16PM (#15966462)
It's reminiscent of how the daughter of one of the Lunchable inventors has never eaten a single Lunchable.
Re:Dynamicland by ivanche on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:09PM (#15965323)
If anything, I believe that Dynamicland and "books not apps" attitude can only complement each other.
Re:Dynamicland by jf on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:37PM (#15964010)
What do you mean?
Re:Dynamicland by JKCalhoun on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:15AM (#15979293)
Books can be take home, can be studied by the individual at their own pace. A student can create their own book because it is "real", "physical" and low tech.

Also, regarding books, there is, historically, a lot of content.

Re:Dynamicland by jf on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:24PM (#15983408)
The same applies for Dynamicland.

For example: I learned how to use the graphics system in Realtalk with a physical booklet that I could have taken home and studied. The booklet had the code printed out on it, as well as hand written annotations from previous readers. The "magical" part was putting the booklet in a space running Realtalk and seeing live examples of the code projected onto each page as I flipped through the book.