Hi Bernie,
Sorry to be so slow in answering.
I suggest trying to find out some of the things that the teacher and school
are already focusing on and relate your use of Sugar to those. Often, the
teacher, grade or school will have some area of instruction that they are
trying to improve.
Researc
Ask the olpc_bos...@lists.laptop.org list - they just did this with
6th graders in Cambridge. If you find me on IRC, I can tell you what I
know as well. (Hm. Must prod Harvard students to post more notes about
how this went.)
--Mel
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On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 18:07 +0200, Bernie Innocenti 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 slowne
On 06/04/09 21:05, Sean DALY wrote:
> 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/thousan
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 competi
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 kid
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:28 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> There's a possibility for a class of five graders in Florence to pilot
> SoaS next year.
>
> Our friends of OLPC Italia came up with a good question: how would an
> introductory class for Sugar work in practice? Both teachers and kids
>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> There's a possibility for a class of fifth graders in Florence to
> pilot SoaS next year.
[...]
> Who actually went through such experience already? How was the class
> organized? What materials were used? And, more importantly,
There's a possibility for a class of five graders in Florence to pilot
SoaS next year.
Our friends of OLPC Italia came up with a good question: how would an
introductory class for Sugar work in practice? Both teachers and kids
will be present to learn simultaneously, which makes things more
inter
