I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
that it has interesting parallels with some of the discussions here
(and in other related forums). http://www.montessorimadness.com/ The
site has an excerpt pdf.
Thought I'd pass it along.
cheers,
Sameer
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Dr. Sameer Verma,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
Another good one is "Montessori Today"
http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adulthood/dp/080521061X
The funny thing is that since I've been exp
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 22:41, David Farning wrote:
> For the last couple of week, we have been working with Peter Pöml to
> set up mirrorbrain as the content deliver network for Sugar Labs.
> There are a number advantages for using a content delivery network.
>
> 1. Usability - We can remove th
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:24, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>
> I'm looking for best practice recommendations / methodologies
> for administering a libre computer lab, which includes Sugar,
> our aim is releasing a document at the end of the month for
> an installfest at a social forum in a marginal sid
On 12.10.2009, at 10:55, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma
> wrote:
>> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I
>> find
>
> Another good one is "Montessori Today"
> http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Ad
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
>
> Another good one is "Montessori Today"
> http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adu
> Seems to be working pretty well from here in Portugal, download.sl.o
> gets redirected to download2.sl.o (solarsail @ MIT?) and utwente.nl.
> Both max out my connection (1.2 MB/s).
Nice, we will be adding mirrors as the system stabilizes. The goal is
for the download infrastructure to be ready
Hi everyone,
Feel free to join us for our weekly Etoys software meet at 3pm ET
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Today we'll be discussing the *last* release candidate before our
Some sweet old brother already pulled me over once for basically agreeing to
somebody's post, but I will risk that again.
Martin is so very right here, painfully so considering that with XOs and
Sugar we are trying some very different options to work. We are assuming
that we can use technology to
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> Hi Martin, can you point to Bryan's "theory" or give me a hint on
> search terms to find it?
I googled for it too, don't think he's posted anything
google-readable. He mentioned it in a couple of presentations at OLPC.
Boils down to the fact t
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> Let me go a step further than Martin. Anything, including the bestest and
> newest computer thingie, will fail when the expected enabler is an
> unenthusiastic teacher.
Sometimes. And sometimes it will make an unenthusiastic teacher
intere
I wanted to add something to this conversation.
I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the
technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students
and teachers with a set of 150 XOs.
I am sympathetic to the thread of this conversation about Montesso
Caryl,
This is so great. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your PPT at some
point.
I work with about 150 fifth graders and their teachers with XOs and SOAS.
I think the think I would include is that the tools are almost completely
customizable to any learning situation, whether that be by the
Gerald,
I've seen your postings and I am getting curioser by the minute. Do you have
any idea on how to get the teachers themselves involved in some level of
discussion?
Yes, I know they are completely utterly overworked already, but then, how to
get to communicate with teachers and especially, m
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
>
> Another good one is "Montessori Today"
> http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adu
wow wow wow, this is a way cool concept. Local updates that would be truly
local automagically. I really would want to know how this ends up working
for the large deploys , esp. Uruguay. I have been told that some servers
are quite overstressed already as it seems (correct me here please) that a
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> I wanted to add something to this conversation.
> I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the
> technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students
> and teachers with a set of 150 XOs.
> I
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> wow wow wow, this is a way cool concept. Local updates that would be truly
> local automagically. I really would want to know how this ends up working
> for the large deploys , esp. Uruguay. I have been told that some servers
> are quite
Montessori, and all of Experiential Education, rely so very much on the
personality of the teacher that they have very limited scalability. This
single matter is a whole sub-science in itself, with scant actual work
beyond the empirical.
Because some Schools of Montessori (there are factions and
I'll post to Sur. Pablo Flores might be the prime actor here.
Dunno if 'guay can ever use the .86, the whole point of .84 was to make it
usable by the guayish security system AFAIK, but I am suitably ignorant of
those matters as to fact.
If I were right, and I am afraid I might be :-) then we wi
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> I'll post to Sur. Pablo Flores might be the prime actor here.
>
> Dunno if 'guay can ever use the .86, the whole point of .84 was to make it
> usable by the guayish security system AFAIK, but I am suitably ignorant of
> those matters as to
Stephen Jacobs (cced) the Professor of the OLPC/Sugar course at the
Rochester institute of Technology is a product of Montessori schools.
His mother was a Montessori teacher.
I have found it helpful to include him in Montessori related
discussion. He has a good sense of what happens 'in the class
Late-Breaking News:
Several OLPCorps team members who deployed XO laptops across Africa
this summer are eager to join us in NY City, eg. talking about their
individual school experience in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya, etc:
http://laptop.org/en/olpcorps/teams.shtml
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> 6. Rubén Rodríguez Pérez has released an updated
> [http://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686.iso Sugar on
> Trisquel build] with Honey Activities installed. He also added a
> graphical usb-creator application.
From now on, the path will be this one:
http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar/
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