Tomeu, Note that the demo you saw in youtube is just photoshop and aftereffects; There is no code at all!!! We need people that will help create prototypes of such integration of creativity tools into Sugar. I agree with you, once we have a working prototype, we can start testing right away, get feedback and refine.
Cheers, Diego Uribe MS in Creativity and Change Leadership www.idemax.org On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 23:27, Diego Uribe <duri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello Community, >> >> I am Diego Uribe, creativity & innovation consultant and researcher at the >> International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, NY. >> Not too long ago, I approached Walter Bender with the challenge/opportunity >> of making Sugar a Trojan Horse for delivering specific creativity heuristics >> to young learners. > > This sounds very interesting, do we have already a place to test our > early modifications and get preliminar feedback as we go? I'm meaning > something more informal than the testing and research mentioned in the > grant, just something to get development started. A small after-school > class could be enough to get early feedback. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> That is, embedding at the core of the Sugar architecture creativity core >> dynamics (such as divergent thinking operators and convergent thinking >> operators) in such a way that a young learner will exercise by deliberate >> design his creativity skills while immersed and learning in the Sugar >> environment. An example of the above would be that when using the write >> activity, the system encourages the learner to produce several versions by >> suggestion possible ways in which he or she could do a transformation to his >> narrative (to better understand this, click: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObwyI5AnZXE). The learner could then select >> the one he finds more original and useful among the many versions produced. >> The same dynamics could even be extend into the collaboration model and all >> other activities within the Sugar ecology. >> >> Note that this doesn't mean that as of now Sugar is not fertile creative >> environment; On the contrary, we are leveraging already the rich and >> flexible platform by embedding by design creativity heuristics. >> Simply put, let's not leave creativity to chance but make a deliberate act >> to make it happen. >> >> Before even considering redesigning the whole architecture, we want to test >> this by embedding one creativity divergent thinking tool, namely SCAMPER, >> into turtle art. >> SCAMPER is an acronym for a series of permutations that allow to produce >> large and diverse quantities of options: Substitute; Combine: Adapt; >> Modify/Magnify/Minimize; Put to other uses; Eliminate; Rearrange/Reverse >> >> We hypothesize that learners operating under the SCAMPER + Turtle art >> activity will produce more creative output than learners operating under the >> normal Turtle art activity. >> As of now, we have recently applied for a NSF Creative IT grant to fund the >> development, testing and research protocol of this idea. If we find >> empirical evidence that we can train creativity skills through embedded >> heuristics in Sugar, we have an unprecedented opportunity to effectively >> train learners creativity skills all around the world. >> >> However, we do not want to wait until we hear back from NSF to keep moving >> this initiative forward. This is an invitation to whomever is interested in >> collaborating to plug in, join the conversation and help advance this >> project. Feel free to contact me at: duri...@gmail.com >> >> Cheers >> >> Diego Uribe >> >> MS in Creativity and Change Leadership >> www.idemax.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
