Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-12 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom management tools. Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the ability to

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-12 Thread Carlos Nazareno
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php Coolness! Can someone wikify all these software solutions discussed in the thread? We should make a resource list of all these things. I'd like to, but I'm catching

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Carlos, On 11.01.2009 05:25, Chris Ball wrote: How do we protect children from accessing porn or other questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC? You can't prevent this, if you also want to

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Carlos, I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers: How do we protect children from accessing porn or other questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from communicating

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Bryan Berry
...@laptop.org -- Message: 8 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:56:53 -0500 From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Subject: Re: child protection + anti-cheating To: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com Message-ID

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bryan Berry bryan.be...@gmail.com wrote: cjb wrote: I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers: How do we protect children from accessing porn or other questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Like instant messaging each other during quizzes? The easiest way would be to have the teacher stand at the back of the class looking for anyone doing so. If network access is not needed during the quiz, you could also tell the children to turn on Extreme Power Management in 8.2.0

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom management tools. Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the ability to remotely watch the screens of all the kids in the room. No need to stand at the back of the classroom. Just the knowledge that the

child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-10 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi guys. Here's one problem we have. How do we protect children from accessing porn or other questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC? It's been said that people should pass a license exam before being allowed

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Carlos, I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers: How do we protect children from accessing porn or other questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC? You can't prevent this, if

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: How do we prevent cheating between students? You can't prevent this. Exactly. I've been working with online tools for education for ~8 years now, and it's interesting to note - paper+pen technology does not prevent cheating