Re: [IAEP] Sugar is an X that happens to have an entire learning platform and operating system included.
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: But it also makes sense to think about the easy to grasp benefits. I think one important criteria is it needs to be something that a group of people already knows they want. Anyone want to brainstorm with me? For Sugar on a Stick I've got: eBook reader that remembers the page and notes and as the child moves from the computer to computer in classrooms, after-school and at home. ePortfolio solution for K-5th grade students Lets kid use Scratch even when the school won't let them install new software. How are the collaboration and networking tools? Does it let kids collaborate without setting them loose in the whole big scary internet (many organizations and individuals are scared of anything connected to the real internet)? -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar is an X that happens to have an entire learning platform and operating system included.
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: But it also makes sense to think about the easy to grasp benefits. I think one important criteria is it needs to be something that a group of people already knows they want. Anyone want to brainstorm with me? For Sugar on a Stick I've got: eBook reader that remembers the page and notes and as the child moves from the computer to computer in classrooms, after-school and at home. ePortfolio solution for K-5th grade students Lets kid use Scratch even when the school won't let them install new software. How are the collaboration and networking tools? Does it let kids collaborate without setting them loose in the whole big scary internet (many organizations and individuals are scared of anything connected to the real internet)? Every school system that I am aware of anywhere in the world requires Internet content filters on the school networks. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar is an X that happens to have an entire learning platform and operating system included.
This thread is inspired from another where James Simmons said: I wonder how the OLPC project might have changed if it was sold as an ebook reader that could also run educational software. It brings to mind an old Woody Allen joke, where he claimed to own a sword that turned into a cane so the muggers would feel sorry for him. and also from always losing every short presentation format contest we enter. Sugar is not a 3 minute idea. This is not a bad thing improving learning for kids world wide is complex, to achieve our mission we will need all of complexity and more. But it also makes sense to think about the easy to grasp benefits. I think one important criteria is it needs to be something that a group of people already knows they want. Anyone want to brainstorm with me? For Sugar on a Stick I've got: - eBook reader that remembers the page and notes and as the child moves from the computer to computer in classrooms, after-school and at home. - ePortfolio solution for K-5th grade students - Lets kid use Scratch even when the school won't let them install new software. -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
