Hi Caryl, Thanks for your support to Sugarizer. I remember your Sugarizer Primero idea and as I said to you I'm agree to help you as possible.
Here is a short description of our Sugarizer deployment this year (I'm CC Bastien so he could give more information): - The deployment was in a CM1 class in French so Grade 4 for US. - The deployment was between February 2017 and July 2017 - We've deployed 25 tablets Lenovo A10-30 tablets with a supplementary microSD 16Gb card with - Each tablet has a protection and we later add a headphone and a bluetooth keyboard for each - Sugarizer OS - so Sugarizer as an Android launcher - v0.8 was deployed on all tablets, we've also included 82 Android activities. Most famous are: GCompris, ScratchJr and Wikipedia. The list was decided by Sandrine, our education specialist. - The school had no internet access, we planned to deploy a Sugarizer Server on a RaspberryPI with a bunch of content but we didn't had time to finalize it - The main work done by the teacher with the tablets was: * Mind mapping using the Sugarizer Labyrinth activity * Scratch using ScratchJR application * E-book creation using BookCreator application - Sandrine had regular contacts with the teacher during the year. We had few meetings with her too and we had a meeting with parents at the end of the year We're starting these days a new deployment in another school with 10 tablets (same model). AFAK these tablets will not be dedicated to a specific grade this time. Best regards. Lionel. 2017-09-24 20:52 GMT+02:00 Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com>: > Hi Walter, > > > Thanks for replying! Yes, we find things a bit hectic here too... we just > made our semi-annual move from Montana and are in the midst of unpacking > our stuff. > > > I look forward to seeing what results Lionel gets from his pilot test of > Sugarizer in a school. Do you know what grade (age) levels he is testing? > > > We can ask Rosamel for some input. As you probably know she is not only > working in a school but also is teaching prospective teachers in a local > university! She really knows her stuff! > > > I was hoping she could do a survey for us from some of the most successful > users of Sugar in the schools she worked with. Her school, which we > visited at the EduJam, was very impressive. Some of the others ... not so > much. Teacher/parent "buy in" is very important! If we want to do that, it > would be good to do it before they go into their summer vacation. > > > Lionel mentioned someone liking Abecederium. It is a good one for primary > school, but there may be problems when we try to translate it into other > languages. > > > I was thinking that, after releasing a Sugarizer1° there could be other > specialized versions of Sugerizer... eg Sugarizer+-x/ (specially for math) > SugarizerCompute (with Pippy and other programming Activities), Sugarizer🎵 > (Music) and so forth! There are so many possibilities. > > > I see Sugarizer1° as a "trial balloon" where we could get all the kinks > out... testing, documentation, translations, marketing, distribution and > the like. I also have a granddaughter in the first grade and her Daddy has > his PhD in Cognitive Science and Educational Technology. He is a "hard > sell" on things like this so, if he likes it, you know it is good! > > > Caryl > ------------------------------ > *From:* Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, September 24, 2017 11:18:20 AM > *To:* Caryl Bigenho > *Cc:* Caryl Bigenho; iaep; Adam Holt; Samson Goddy; Shameer Verma; Lionel > Laske; Laura Vargas; igna...@sugarlabs.org; Tony Anderson; James Cameron; > Rosa; José Miguel García; Gonzalo Odiard > *Subject:* Re: Sugarizer1° Revisited > > > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Folks... >> >> >> I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Perhaps you have been too busy >> and overlooked my email about Sugarizer1°. >> > Things have been a bit chaotic of late :P > > >> I am resending it and hoping to get some honest opinions and suggestions, >> especially from those of you who have been interested in and working with >> Sugarizer and those of you who are candidates for the Sugar Labs Oversight >> Board. >> > > I undestand that Lionel is in the midst of his first pilot test of > Sugarizer in a school, although I don't know any of the specifics. It would > seem we should consider what he learns from the pilot before executing a > plan such as you describe. In the meantime, we should be able to gather > some data from the Ceibal team that is already on the ground in UY and in > daily contact with teachers and students. Lots we can learn from them. > > regards. > > -walter > >> >> I look forward to a discussion about how we could best make something >> like this happen to bring the magic of Sugar to children everywhere. >> >> >> Caryl >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Caryl Bigenho on behalf of Caryl Bigenho <ca...@laptop.org> >> *Sent:* Friday, September 22, 2017 9:51:32 PM >> *To:* iaep; Adam Holt; Walter Bender; Samson Goddy; Shameer Verma; >> Lionel Laske; Laura Vargas; igna...@sugarlabs.org; Tony Anderson; James >> Cameron; Rosa; José Miguel García; Gonzalo Odiard >> *Subject:* Sugarizer1° Revisited >> >> Hello All, >> >> I think somewhere some of the people of SugarLabs have “lost their way.” >> When I joined the OLPC support-gang nearly ten years ago and, later, Sugar >> Labs I was excited by the concept of bringing collaborative, >> constructionism to children’s learning all over the world. Later, as the >> XOs were no longer readily available, Lionel’s idea of “Sugar on any >> device” promised an exciting way that this could still actually happen. >> >> *Now, I am seeing an attempt by a few individuals to usurp all this and >> drive the program to just a few chosen areas. I believe this is wrong! I >> believe this should be a world-wide movement to improve education of >> children everywhere! I also believe many of you agree with me.* >> >> A couple of summers ago I proposed, via a motion, a project that I felt >> would help fulfill that original vision of bringing the magic of learning >> with Sugar to children all over the world. It addressed what have been some >> of the weaknesses in prior projects… principally not meeting the perceived >> needs of children, parents and teachers. Without doing that (which was >> done, masterfully, in Uruguay), Sugar just won’t get used. The prospective >> users have to want to use it. They have to see it as the powerful >> educational tool that it is. >> >> My proposed project would start small, with a special version of >> Sugarizer designed just for children in the first 2 or 3 years of school. >> It would begin with a survey of students and teachers in Uruguay who had >> used Sugar Activities in the Project Ceibal program. After finding a small >> number of favorite Activities, say ten to twelve, the first version would >> be produced in both Spanish and English. It would be called Sugarizer1°, or >> Sugarizer Primero because it would be designed especially for children in >> the "primary grades". >> >> When the first versions were ready, they would be tested by children, >> teachers, and parents using all sorts of devices. Surveys to find favorite >> Activities would be done. Ways to use them with classroom lessons would be >> found. Ways to enhance learning at home would be found. Fun things to do >> with Sugar as a family would be found. Documentation of all this would be >> made universally available online. Versions in other languages would be >> added at this point. French would be logical then possibly Hindi, Arabic, >> and Chinese. Other smaller language groups could also be served such as >> Haitian Creole, Aymara, and the like. >> >> For the regular Release Candidate, an energetic “Marketing campaign” >> would be needed with Sugar Labs volunteers going to all sorts of >> educational and open source fairs and conferences, presenting at teacher >> education institutions, and the like. Getting some of the teachers, >> students, and parents from the beta testing stage to write articles, blogs, >> and the like about their experiences would help. Some travel expenses might >> be incurred and some stipends for writers might be appropriate. >> >> As you can see in the paragraph above, many of these steps should cost >> money. For example, a coordinating teacher in Uruguay should be paid to >> conduct the studies there (logically this would be Rosamel Ramirez). >> Possibly educators who work for us as documentation writers should be paid. >> Etc. Etc. Etc. >> >> This proposal needs lots of work. It did 2 summers ago and it still does. >> If others tell me they also feel that *the Magic of Sugar should be for >> children everywhere*, I’ll proceed to produce a good formal motion to >> the board. If there is no interest, I won’t waste any more time on it >> (planning and writing this would take many hours of thought, research, and >> discussion with other Sugar Labs members). >> >> What do you all think??? >> >> Caryl >> >> P.S. the logo for Sugarizer1° would still be the cute little XO man! He >> is recognized by people all over the world and thus has lots of value as a >> marketing tool. *It would be foolish to replace him with anything else.* >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >
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