Caryl, I agree with you on this. I think, with Sugar (both with and without the XOs) we have a powerful set of tools for both independent learning and cooperative learning. Every day, I found myself challenged to help our 5th grade teachers made their curricula come alive in brand new ways with these tools.
Gerald On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am seeing more and more folks who want free XOs to teach children "IT > skills" and "computer skills". I think we need to somehow re-emphasize the > value of the XO as a learning tool for subject matter related to the school > curriculum and meta learning. > > The Sugar software is such an important part of this. All the other > features of Sugar and the XO-1, which allow the programs to integrate and > and allow project based, collaborative learning, are important as well. > > There are other low-cost laptops that don't do all the wonderful things the > XO does that would work just as well for learning IT or computer skills. If > that is all they are interested in, perhaps they should look elsewhere. > > Caryl (aka Grumpy Grannie) > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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