[IAEP] Peer tutoring initiatives

2010-07-27 Thread Jennifer Martino
Good afternoon everyone, I am a learning consultant currently supporting OLPC deployments in Latin America. I am putting together a document regarding peer tutoring initiatives (available in both English and Spanish) and would like to include more examples from OLPC deployments around the world.

Re: [IAEP] Peer tutoring initiatives

2010-07-27 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Jennifer, I manage a deployment of 140 XOs with 5th grade students in a middle school in Westchester County, NY. We trained about 4-5 students per classroom (we call them the Tech Team), and they support their teachers and fellow students. You can read about it here:

[IAEP] Catching Up

2010-07-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I'm back to the world camp Grandma and Grandpa has ended for the summer after lots of fun hiking, swimming, playing card games and Monopoly, doing cooking and crafts, playing music, pulling weeds, building a square-foot garden, dealing with sibling rivalries, etc. Now I'm

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-07-28

2010-07-27 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. Twitter-style: Hello from Squeakfest in Wilmington, North Carolina. We just had a demonstration of some Etoys projects done by 7th graders; pretty amazing. One student, when asked what she does to keep from getting frustrated said: Damn computer. But she is an accomplished