Most kids in developed countries know that some computers perform better than others, and use their favorite YouTube video as an informal benchmark.
They are also exposed to the gadget culture of cellphones as MP3 players, videogame consoles, GPS car systems, and so on. An XO-1 faces stiff competition. My two older kids (12 and 10 at the time) immediately sussed out the most interesting functions the XO-1 offers: the Record Activity, and Chat over the mesh network. I deliberately kept them off the Internet and was in the room, but not looking over their shoulders. An XO-1 by itself lacks the collaboration aspect so central to the Sugar experience... need at least a pair to show what it can do :-) I showed SoaS to a friend recently, connected to his wireless network and the Neighborhood View filled up with friends from the jabber server. His eyes popped and he got really excited but then asked questions about how that will scale if hundreds/thousands of classrooms start using it ;-) Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > On 06/04/09 17:05, Marten Vijn wrote: >> 1. Outside a class a introduced XO's a group of 6 kids. I used a >> freeform (no structure). Kids when to youtube and hyves and both sites >> did not work. Kids got frustrated of the XO's slowness. >> >> 2. I an class with only one XO we told the teacher let kids play as a >> bonus and ask afterward what they discovered. Here the kid like the XO a >> lot. >> >> >> My recommondation would are: >> >> guide form: >> - no internet first time >> - make groups with tasks >> - let childeren tell their experiance >> - Let the teacher not to be in charge off the class (take over control) >> - short time (one hour max) >> - make clear choise what to discover, >> - have goals per session (measuring succes) >> >> or if use free form: >> - no internet >> - limited time >> - no questions for teacher or guiders. >> - no active interventions, >> - no active observation, (do sometime else). >> - afterwards let kids tell >> - what not worked >> - what worked > > > Thanks, that's very valuable information. > > Did in either the kids require any initial training or assistance to get > started? How old were they? > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep