On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 05:57:31PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I received this message after I answered Bill Allombert. > > The list below is a reasonable one, when "Bio" is written in full "Biology" > and "medicine" is added; medicine is largely biology but with special needs. > > I disagree with the distinction science/education. Scientific education is > science, or ideally it should be. Most discoveries spring from students doing > a thesis work, which is education. Arrhenius set the a large section of the > basis of chemistry (and thereby of biology chemistry agronomy etc etc) while > a student under education (although - being too much ahead of the times - he > was blamed for his ideas).
In the context of menu, we should consider the categorisation from a functionnal perspective: " How the user interact with the tool ? " Software that assert knowledge and/or capability of users (arithmetic quizzing, typing tutor) or whose purpose is to teach a determined set of knowledge to the user are in Education. Software that let the user to observe, process or compute freely with scientific data are in Science. Of course scientific softwares will be used for educational purpose, and some softwares will have both purpose. Consider the Games section: Instead of classifying games by topic (Sci-Fi, Heroic Fantaisy, animals, cartoon,etc.) which would lead to an almost infinite list with a lot of intersection) we classify them by the way the user interact with the software (Action, Board, Card, etc.). Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
