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Herman Rubin  comments :

	Unfortunately, at this time the great bulk of material
	presented is exactly stimulus-response.  It is trying to make
	humans act like computers.  What is needed in education is
	concepts.  There is a big amount of talk of transfer of
	training; what I have seen on this is either negative, or it
	is application.  

There is no doubt a large amount of the "stimulus-response" type of
thing going on out there -- but from my experience there is as much if
not more high quality "though provoking" material.  Some, like
Tarski's world has a "game like" approach, but at a very high level.

One of the key points to remember is that "concepts" can only be
taught in the context of "experience."  The "stimulus-response" model
is a very one dimensional experience; a program like MathMaze,
however, and Tarski's world, provide fairly rich experiences -- always
under the control of the learner who can modify twist bend flip the
rules to suit her curiosity.  

Yes, this does take a lot of developmental work -- probably as much as
writing a new textbook.  But imagine a math textbook with Mathematica
built in; a statistics textbook with JMP and several years worth of
opinion polls and economic data; an astronomy text with tons of images
of the planets (gis type); an environmental studies text with 
stella, etc.

Ciao
Steve