Gerald Ardito wrote: > Walter, > > It just happens that in my district the 5th graders are in the middle > school. > I consider them elementary students and they are still taught in an > elementary school fashion. > > Does that make sense? > > Gerald > No, not at all. Shame on you! :-)
It's so funny, this thing about Sugar and the XO being for elementary children, and then we go around serependitiously messing things up. In Bolivia Primary goes up to 8th grade... So it's OK to use them for 8th grade there and not elsewhere? In Uruguay they are trying to figure out how to make things happen as kids "graduate" Elementary as they go to Ciclo Básico Único for 7th grade, still carrying their laptops. Should they stop using them because it was not designed for them? And Richard Stallman tried (and gave up giving a peculiar excuse) to use the XO as his primary machine. I used mine for the first 2 days of the recent Book Sprint as my work laptop (later I really needed several documents open at the same time, so I had to borrow a screen to plug to my desktop, embarrassed look here) I am convinced that we are not done, by far, to find out how much we can get out of the XO, and keeping trying, while retaining some focus, is the way I suggest we follow. (personally, I think that kids younger than 4th grade are better off using the Teachermate instead, but then, that's me) Yama _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep