Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Cole
First: congrats to all. Second: User-friendliness bug: The release notes say "Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release." No link to instructions provided in either e-mail or wiki version. Searching the wiki turned up "Supported Systems"

Re: [IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

2009-09-30 Thread Gerald Ardito
Bert, Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I am working with 5th grade teachers and students and have been waiting for something like this. YIPEE! Gerald On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 30.09.2009, at 17:10, Bill Kerr wrote: > > > from walter's digest: > > 2.

Re: [IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

2009-09-30 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 30.09.2009, at 17:10, Bill Kerr wrote: > from walter's digest: > 2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from > Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using > Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language > version. She has kindl

[IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] CICE-2010: Call for Papers

2009-09-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Galyna Akmayeva Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:38 PM Subject: [Edu-sig] CICE-2010: Call for Papers To: edu-...@python.org Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. Apologies for cross-postin

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-09-30 Thread Simon Schampijer
Dear Sugar Community, this is the Final Release in our Sucrose 0.86 development cycle (http://sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap#Schedule)! Sucrose 0.86 is the latest version of the Sugar learning platform, consisting of Glucose, the base system environment; and Fructose, a set of demonstration act

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-09-30

2009-09-30 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
> All of these distributions come with the core (Fructose) activities; > some, such as openSUSE, come with many additional (Honey) activities > pre-packaged. We've just added the Honey pack to Sugar on Trisquel, and also the graphical usb-creator app. The (430MB) iso url is the same: http://devel

[IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Kerr
from walter's digest: 2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language version. She has kindly made it available for download (See [http://www.sc

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Kerr
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high > official in the Bolivian government. > > Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear, > simple and please objective answers (no vapor-stuff)

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-09-30

2009-09-30 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. While the decision panel debates [See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-September/008746.html] whether or not Sugar Labs should be a GNU/Linux distributor, I thought it would be worthwhile surveying the GNU/Linux distribution's plans regarding Sugar Release 0.84

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SOAS[DP] Educator's Opinion

2009-09-30 Thread Sean DALY
Cross-posting to the marketing list, since this is a marketing discussion. Caryl, I apologize if I seemed a bit short last night, I had had a long day. My "nobody" is the hypothetical "typical" person... and certainly not you. It's likely a different "nobody" than the "nobody" I heard of who likes

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Kerr
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high > official in the Bolivian government. > > Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear, > simple and please objective answers (no vapor-stuff)

Re: [IAEP] Vikidia - forward to olpc-sur?

2009-09-30 Thread s . boutayeb
Hola, Tengo aqui una informacion comunicada por Bastien Guerry (OLPC France). Se trata del proyecto de wiki redactado por y para los niños mismos. Existe también una version de este proyecto en español. Muy atentamente, Samy Selon Bastien : > Hi all, > > Vikidia is a free online enclyclopia fo

[IAEP] Vikidia - forward to olpc-sur?

2009-09-30 Thread Bastien
Hi all, Vikidia is a free online enclyclopia for children 8-13, written by both children and adults: http://vikidia.org/ There are currently a french project and a spanish one: http://fr.vikidia.org/index.php/Accueil http://es.vikidia.org/index.php/Vikidia:Portada Can anyone forward this

Re: [IAEP] SOAS[DP] Educator's Opinion

2009-09-30 Thread Martin Dengler
Are you guys talking about Sugar or SoaS? Martin pgpgqU1UUy6N6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Ian Thomson
Hi Bastien, A good way to measure the skills needed in this rapidly changing world is to look into Information Literacy Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_literacy ) references the American Library Association's description which is fairly good The American Library Association's

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bastien
I have added Caroline's and Maria's references to this page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Education_Bibliographies * Boaler, J. (2002). Experiencing School Mathematics : Traditional and Reform Approaches To Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning, Revised and Expanded

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bastien
Edward Cherlin writes: > Ask about teaching children to work together, as with collaboration in > Sugar, rather than individual achievement alone. How will the > government test that? > > Ask about solving problems that may have no single right answer, and > certainly don't have a known right ans