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Tarski's World implements my Logic & Games idea for education. I should have known this before!

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/hp/Tarski2.html

Since the student was wrong about the evaluation of this sentence, he will eventually lose the game. But in the course of losing, he learns exactly how he was misinterpreting the initial sentence: a big win for all.

Perhaps a nice project would be to implement such a game for modal logics? Bisimulation games?

One interesting goal for this area would be to make it easy to automatically generate game rules from a logic.


I just found out that logic-game theorist Andrzej Ehrenfeucht is into education.

Although I'm interested in cognitive science and have fun hacking my human representations into computers, my interest in education is more of a practical one.

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Quoting Roger Schank again
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/schank/schank_p3.html

Just as early films were just filmed plays, early web courses are just regular courses on the web. This will change. And when it does the structure of the university system will have to change with it. You won't need so many course credits to graduate because the concept of "credits" will have become meaningless. What is needed is a new concept, based upon performance. Graduates should have accomplished certain things, not necessarily have sat through certain courses.