Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-24 Thread James Simmons
I believe in constructionist learning as much as anyone, but before Sugar can benefit anyone it needs to be available and used. At least to some extent it needs to fit in with what schools are already doing, and it needs to run on what they already have. The resistance to Common Core standards

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Which of Papert's is definitive? On Apr 23, 2017 10:54 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun,

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last > year... Is Mindstorms the definitive work? > > If sugar is "against

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last > year... Is Mindstorms the definitive work? > > If sugar is "against school", by which I mean is not anti school but > critical, is that worth

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last year... Is Mindstorms the definitive work? If sugar is "against school", by which I mean is not anti school but critical, is that worth encoding in the mission more explicitly? Cheers Dave On Apr 23, 2017 1:09 PM, "Walter

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > What motivates me to contribute to sugar labs is an intuition that it is a > reasonable response to the topics raised in the following essay. > > Since we are talking about the mission, I wonder if my intuition is >