Re: [IAEP] Communities around technology for learning (was: Re: [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery)
I have suggested creating a walled garden Web site for all OLPC children. We can discuss whether teachers should be allowed in, but definitely no parents. ^_^ They should have their own place to discuss whatever concerns them. Education, poverty, government corruption, international e-commerce... On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 17:32, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: I finally got around to reading Claudia's article and one of the core take-aways for me is that building communities (plural!) which help disseminate knowledge about how to use technology for learning is a core challenge which hasn't been sufficiently addressed yet. To me 2010 did show the first promises of this happening within the OLPC / Sugar community with collaboration starting between Plan Ceibal and ParaguayEduca, the work of organizations and communities such as ceibalJAM and RAP Ceibal, a better integration of Latin American contributors in the global community, eKindling's work in the Philippines, all the time Bernie, Daniel, Claudia, Walter and others are spending sharing with and learning from deployments, events such the community summit in San Francisco and the realness summit, the olpcMAP.net project, etc. And with some OLE Nepal staff having started the year by flying out to Rwanda to support the deployment there 2011 is also definitely beginning on a high-note. Having said that I personally feel that at the moment this network of networks (or community of communities, take your pick;-) is wide rather than deep - often seemingly ending at people living in capitals or major cities, being experienced with FLOSS and/or innovative education, etc. rather than reaching and benefiting the children, parents, teachers, principals, and administrators who are really the major stakeholders of education initiatives. I don't have a simple answer on how to deal with this (and who knows, it might just be an issue perceived by yours truly) but I think keeping it in the back of the head might be a start. Cheers, Christoph Am 20.01.2011 17:24, schrieb Holt: Thanks Bastien. Back on the home front, also check out Claudia Urrea's (OLPC Assoc's Chief Learner ;) article today on one-to-one edutech etc: http://edutechdebate.org/ict-in-schools/technologies-for-learning-vs-learning-about-technology/ On 1/20/2011 9:46 AM, Bastien wrote: Hi Christoph and all, I always enjoy those resources about education, thank you for the pointers -- and to everyone for the comments! Let me share two recent readings of mine: John Maeda : The Laws of Simplicity http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Simplicity-Design-Technology-Business/dp/0262134721 My attention got caught when I saw John Maeda referring to Nicholas Negroponte in the chapter « Context ». While discussing the importance of focusing, he mentions this advice from NN : Be as an electric bulb, not as a lazer ray. Which I found to be quite an inspiring metaphor in the context of learning: let's all learn how to shed light on things as bulbs, taking care of others and the context, not as lazer ray, only taking care of the subject matter. George Steiner - « Éloge de la transmission - Le maître et l'élève » http://livre.fnac.com/a1904995/George-Steiner-Eloge-de-la-transmission-le-maitre-et-l-eleve (Sorry, only published in french.) In the debate about instructionisme vs. [constructionisme, project-based method, Montessori method, etc.], most people would certainly say that Steiner -- George, not Rudolph! -- is rather conservative, expressing opinions shared by teachers with a classical-instructionist attitude. The title of this book says it all. Still, he proposes a definition for what it is to be a master: it is someone from which students can always feel the love behind the irony. Of course, Socrates comes to mind as a master of both irony and love towards its pupils -- I bet Steiner would agree. I like this definition. It is general enough to escape the opposition between instructionism / [constructionisme, ...]. But still, I feel this definition captures something essential that any teacher could fruitfully think about. My 2 cents, -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Communities around technology for learning (was: Re: When teaching restrains discovery)
Edward, I like your idea. And plan on setting up a blog, or other site, where the students I am working with could share with one another about their experiences with the XOs. Gerald On Saturday, January 22, 2011, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I have suggested creating a walled garden Web site for all OLPC children. We can discuss whether teachers should be allowed in, but definitely no parents. ^_^ They should have their own place to discuss whatever concerns them. Education, poverty, government corruption, international e-commerce... On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 17:32, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: I finally got around to reading Claudia's article and one of the core take-aways for me is that building communities (plural!) which help disseminate knowledge about how to use technology for learning is a core challenge which hasn't been sufficiently addressed yet. To me 2010 did show the first promises of this happening within the OLPC / Sugar community with collaboration starting between Plan Ceibal and ParaguayEduca, the work of organizations and communities such as ceibalJAM and RAP Ceibal, a better integration of Latin American contributors in the global community, eKindling's work in the Philippines, all the time Bernie, Daniel, Claudia, Walter and others are spending sharing with and learning from deployments, events such the community summit in San Francisco and the realness summit, the olpcMAP.net project, etc. And with some OLE Nepal staff having started the year by flying out to Rwanda to support the deployment there 2011 is also definitely beginning on a high-note. Having said that I personally feel that at the moment this network of networks (or community of communities, take your pick;-) is wide rather than deep - often seemingly ending at people living in capitals or major cities, being experienced with FLOSS and/or innovative education, etc. rather than reaching and benefiting the children, parents, teachers, principals, and administrators who are really the major stakeholders of education initiatives. I don't have a simple answer on how to deal with this (and who knows, it might just be an issue perceived by yours truly) but I think keeping it in the back of the head might be a start. Cheers, Christoph Am 20.01.2011 17:24, schrieb Holt: Thanks Bastien. Back on the home front, also check out Claudia Urrea's (OLPC Assoc's Chief Learner ;) article today on one-to-one edutech etc: http://edutechdebate.org/ict-in-schools/technologies-for-learning-vs-learning-about-technology/ On 1/20/2011 9:46 AM, Bastien wrote: Hi Christoph and all, I always enjoy those resources about education, thank you for the pointers -- and to everyone for the comments! Let me share two recent readings of mine: John Maeda : The Laws of Simplicity http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Simplicity-Design-Technology-Business/dp/0262134721 My attention got caught when I saw John Maeda referring to Nicholas Negroponte in the chapter « Context ». While discussing the importance of focusing, he mentions this advice from NN : Be as an electric bulb, not as a lazer ray. Which I found to be quite an inspiring metaphor in the context of learning: let's all learn how to shed light on things as bulbs, taking care of others and the context, not as lazer ray, only taking care of the subject matter. George Steiner - « Éloge de la transmission - Le maître et l'élève » http://livre.fnac.com/a1904995/George-Steiner-Eloge-de-la-transmission-le-maitre-et-l-eleve (Sorry, only published in french.) In the debate about instructionisme vs. [constructionisme, project-based method, Montessori method, etc.], most people would certainly say that Steiner -- George, not Rudolph! -- is rather conservative, expressing opinions shared by teachers with a classical-instructionist attitude. The title of this book says it all. Still, he proposes a definition for what it is to be a master: it is someone from which students can always feel the love behind the irony. Of course, So-- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Fieldwork and Research by SomosAzucar's German Volunteer Antje Breitkopf
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org wrote: Hello dear list, This year we had the good experience of working together with Antje Breitkopf, a German doctoral student who also visited in Nepal the year before. She has great experience and a very insightful mind, and so her experience in visiting rural schools in Peru proved very fruitful in insights and observations which she has been so kind in sharing with us in an article she published in our Somos Azucar blog: I think it might be interesting for many of you. http://somosazucar.org/2010/11/20/informe-sobre-la-investigacion-de-las-laptop-xo/ I presented a version of this report to the DIGETE (General Department of Educational Technologies), Ministry of Education, Peru to inform them about the development of my investigation and field work of the project “una laptop por niño” (OLPC Peru). It contains experiences, observations, first conclusions and recommendations and is written in English, and open to be translated and used under “creative commons” license, attributing the writer. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Is the original version available somewhere online? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Better links bar for wiki.sugarlabs.org
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:08 -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I personally think the download link on top is important and should be kept. Ok, if it could be changed into something that won't get clicked first thing by novice users who are trying to download Sugar. For example, archive or files. The Link to Sugar/Downloads on the sidebar: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads/Landing_page should be called Get Sugar: and point to: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads Directly. I do not understand why it goes to a landing page first. This is more consistent with the other items on the left Sugar sidebar Get Started; Get Help; Get Involved. Too Many Clicks I'm ok on skipping the landing page. As for Get Sugar, while it may seem more user-friendly, it violates the de-facto standard naming used by all web sites. Even novice Internet users search for a download link when they want a program. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME has sugar0.88.0 and installs in VB4
I found another Distribution where sugar can be installed Installed it to VirtualBox 4 Works nicely Details here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Magalh%C3%A3es#caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586_with_sugar_0.88.0 Installs in symantic with task-sugar 0.88.0-1mdv2010.1 Sugar Platform Tom Gilliard satellit ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Internet Archive now supports text to speech with sentence highlighting
English-only so far? Any further plans? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 15:43, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: I just discovered this a minute ago and thought it would be of interest. The Internet Archive lets you read a book online. They have polished up their online book reader code to the point that it now supports text to speech. It highlights sentences instead of words, and has a nice, human-female-sounding voice that is much more pleasant than what espeak gives us. Here are a couple of links to try out: http://www.archive.org/stream/BigAviationBookForBoys#page/n15/mode/2up http://www.archive.org/stream/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.10.08-17.20.43#page/n5/mode/2up To date we only have TTS with highlighting in one Activity, which is Read Etexts. The highlighting lags behind the word spoken on an XO laptop (although it keeps up on a more powerful machine). This makes me wonder if sentence highlighting might be a better alternative (and also how to decide what constitutes a sentence). The IA code doesn't always get it right, but it does OK. What is neat is that it works on books like BigAviationBook that were created by photographing page images. This makes me think we could get TTS working in the Read Activity. Anyway, have a look. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
