[olpc-help] Reference

[Larry J. Maltin]

Steve, I believe a more apropos perspective might be that each of us 
learn, even the same things, in unique ways. That is what makes 
knowledge so rich with possibilities. Further, I am more comfortable 
with the adjunct use of print matter. (I also dread the time when we no 
longer have any analog materials, and the digital programming necessary 
to read the digital data is also "gone." But, that is another discussion 
for another time.) To deny me that adjunct is tantamount to requiring 
the entire population to wear the same, size 8, shoe. Steve, I do not 
know what I want to learn, but I do know why -- to learn whatever I 
chance to learn will allow me to synthesize ideas and concepts in a 
manner that is unique to only me, but might be of interest to others. :-)

Learning is not a spectator sport.

Larry

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Larry Maltin                                       
Dix Hills, NY  11746-8021
USA
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Steve Holton wrote:
>   
>> Isn' that a bit antithetical to the OLPC mission of constructionism?
>>
>> The XO is a platform for learning. Which is to say there is no book that can
>> teach you everything you could learn from the XO. I'd go further to say that
>> being taught how to use the XO in a book degrades the learning experience.
>>     
>
> Then perhaps a more appropriate way to do this would be to link to the
> thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of PDFs on the web with
> Fedora tutorials. I guess the question I have is what it is Larry wants
> to learn and why.
>
> This is non-trivial on the XO because
>
> a. By default, the "man" and "info" utilities and their data aren't
> installed. It's not really a base Fedora machine, it's a stripped Fedora
> machine with unique hardware and a GUI designed for exploration by children.
>
> b. Some of us still cling to our dead-tree documents. I have to admit
> that the XO is the first machine I've ever owned that I think has a
> *serious* chance of replacing the book in my every day reading. For
> example, I very often will download a technical paper on queuing theory
> at work and print it out. And I have at least a dozen books on the
> subject as well.
>
> It's highly unlikely that all of the books will show up in PDF form on
> the web, although two of the major ones in the specific application area
> that I work in, computer performance evaluation, have gone out of print
> and are available from their authors' web sites.
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