[IAEP] activities (games) recommended age
Hello. I'm a teacher and I am going to do master's thesis on the use of Sugar Activities (games). Can anyone tell me if there is any recommendation on the appropriate ages for activities (games)? Or do you consider this as an opposition to constructionism and the freedom of choice of the child? Where can I get more information on this subject? Sorry for my english. Thank you very much, -- Pedro Martins 966092379 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] activities (games) recommended age
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Pedro Martins pt.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I'm a teacher and I am going to do master's thesis on the use of Sugar Activities (games). Can anyone tell me if there is any recommendation on the appropriate ages for activities (games)? Or do you consider this as an opposition to constructionism and the freedom of choice of the child? Games/Apps in general or within Sugar itself? We have restrictions in terms of the types of games we will host, e.g., no games that promote violence, but we don't restrict access in any way to the games that we do host. That said, we have several mechanisms for steering a child or teacher to content of interest, including recommend activities, collections, reviews, categories, etc. It would be interesting to learn more about how these are used and suggestions for improvements. There are also, external to Sugar, guides, social networks, etc. that play an important role. We are encouraging a documentation format for activities that give some guidance on how to use the activities for learning. See for example, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Portfolio Where can I get more information on this subject? Sorry for my english. Thank you very much, -- Pedro Martins 966092379 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] activities (games) recommended age
Hi Pedro The main target audience for the XO laptop and Sugar is primary school, grades 1-6. Younger children will have difficulty using a computer. Many of Sugar's Activities are usable by older children, I think Sugar still quite suitable for grades 7-8. Older children may find the Sugar desktop restrictive and want to use the Gnome desktop for some tasks such as access to the underlying file system. Children in grades 5-6 are probably the most productive, the desire to experiment and create seems to peak around these years. Tony Hello. I'm a teacher and I am going to do master's thesis on the use of Sugar Activities (games). Can anyone tell me if there is any recommendation on the appropriate ages for activities (games)? Or do you consider this as an opposition to constructionism and the freedom of choice of the child? Where can I get more information on this subject? Sorry for my english. Thank you very much, -- Pedro Martins 966092379 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] activities (games) recommended age
Hi Pedro, Maybe I can help you narrow it down. But, first I will need to know a little bit about your proposed research project. Will you be working with your own students or others? Will you be both teacher and investigator? What is the age/grade and grade of the students who will be using Sugar? What does your research design look like? Do you plan to do a survey, pre-test/post-test with control and experimental groups, a combination of both or something else? Will you be using XOs or SOAS (Sugar On A Stick)? Will students have access to Sugar outside the classroom?What subjects do you plan to concentrate on? Caryl Bigenho To: pt.p...@gmail.com From: fors...@ozonline.com.au Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:34:08 +1100 CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] activities (games) recommended age Hi Pedro The main target audience for the XO laptop and Sugar is primary school, grades 1-6. Younger children will have difficulty using a computer. Many of Sugar's Activities are usable by older children, I think Sugar still quite suitable for grades 7-8. Older children may find the Sugar desktop restrictive and want to use the Gnome desktop for some tasks such as access to the underlying file system. Children in grades 5-6 are probably the most productive, the desire to experiment and create seems to peak around these years. Tony Hello. I'm a teacher and I am going to do master's thesis on the use of Sugar Activities (games). Can anyone tell me if there is any recommendation on the appropriate ages for activities (games)? Or do you consider this as an opposition to constructionism and the freedom of choice of the child? Where can I get more information on this subject? Sorry for my english. Thank you very much, -- Pedro Martins 966092379 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] activities (games) recommended age
Pedro, Another thing to remember about Activities is that some of them are for finding and reading e-books. There are millions of free e-books available, most not written for children. (I wish I had an XO laptop running Sugar in college). Sugar has Activities that make it really easy to find free e-books and copy them to the computer. The Read Activity can use all the most common e-book formats. Sugar can be used to create books too. Just as we have students writing Sugar Activities and even contributing code to Sugar itself we will also soon have students writing and publishing textbooks and other materials. I have written a bit on this topic: http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/ and also at http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment James Simmons On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Pedro, Maybe I can help you narrow it down. But, first I will need to know a little bit about your proposed research project. - Will you be working with your own students or others? - Will you be both teacher and investigator? - What is the age/grade and grade of the students who will be using Sugar? - What does your research design look like? - Do you plan to do a survey, pre-test/post-test with control and experimental groups, a combination of both or something else? - Will you be using XOs or SOAS (Sugar On A Stick)? - Will students have access to Sugar outside the classroom? - What subjects do you plan to concentrate on? Caryl Bigenho To: pt.p...@gmail.com From: fors...@ozonline.com.au Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:34:08 +1100 CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] activities (games) recommended age Hi Pedro The main target audience for the XO laptop and Sugar is primary school, grades 1-6. Younger children will have difficulty using a computer. Many of Sugar's Activities are usable by older children, I think Sugar still quite suitable for grades 7-8. Older children may find the Sugar desktop restrictive and want to use the Gnome desktop for some tasks such as access to the underlying file system. Children in grades 5-6 are probably the most productive, the desire to experiment and create seems to peak around these years. Tony Hello. I'm a teacher and I am going to do master's thesis on the use of Sugar Activities (games). Can anyone tell me if there is any recommendation on the appropriate ages for activities (games)? Or do you consider this as an opposition to constructionism and the freedom of choice of the child? Where can I get more information on this subject? Sorry for my english. Thank you very much, -- Pedro Martins 966092379 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
