RE: RE: Pokeman ZPDs

From: Eugene Matusov (ematusov@UDel.Edu)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 18:57:02 PST


Hi Paul and everybody--

Paul asked

> I hope the LACC Pokemon artefacts do not succumb too soon to the negative
> "that's not a real card" kind of mentality and that the kids simply
> recognize that they can use them the same way as those japanese
> holographic
> ones my son keeps raving about.

I just came back from LACC. Two boys argued:

-- You have fake cards (from us)!
-- But you can't trade your real cards!

Socialism rules over capitalism! :-)

Eugene

--------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:22:25 -0800
> From: Paul Dillon <dillonph@northcoast.com>
> To: ematusov@UDel.Edu
> Subject: Re: RE: Pokeman ZPDs
>
> Eugene how wonderful.
>
> Your Pokemon activities transform the notion of "expert"/"novice"
> insofar as
> you enable the energy percolating among your kids allowing them to choose
> the fields of discourse. BTW isn't that exactly what a Pokemon trainer is
> supposed to do :)
>
> I hope the LACC Pokemon artefacts do not succumb too soon to the negative
> "that's not a real card" kind of mentality and that the kids simply
> recognize that they can use them the same way as those japanese
> holographic
> ones my son keeps raving about.
>
> Paul H. Dillon
>



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