Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-28 Thread John Watlington
There is no argument that a great teacher influences many children in the right direction. But such an effort to improve teachers is completely orthogonal (i.e. independent) to both Sugar and OLPC. Better teachers are needed whether or not the kids get laptops. Should OLPC or Sugar Labs

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

2010-10-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.10.2010, at 00:04, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... Thanks for all the good stuff... please, keep it coming! I just wanted to let you all know that I made the Etoys-to-go stick this morning and have tested it on my MacBook, eeePC, and PowerBook (a older Power PC!) and it seems to be

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Zitat von John Watlington w...@laptop.org: There is no argument that a great teacher influences many children in the right direction. But such an effort to improve teachers is completely orthogonal (i.e. independent) to both Sugar and OLPC. Better teachers are needed whether or not the kids

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-28 Thread Outofindia
*Where have you seen evidence of this?* In a partial sense : We have seen it in the DBF OLPC deployment at Goa India (105 XOs ) at Our Lady of Merces High School, where we did not wait for teachers to be trained. There are sometimes over 50 kids to a class and the teacher though present in the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

2010-10-28 Thread Walter Bender
Would someone please translate this message into Spanish for the Sur list? Gracias. --- Further comment on Adam's ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: [snip] Yes, I'm paraphrasing, Walter please speak for yourself :)

Re: [IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

2010-10-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
Great idea! I can host parties at my new T Accessible house in Arlington if that helps. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: (1) In-person meetings in between Bostonian http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board members and Sugar/OLPC Local Lab Boston, quasimonthly.

Re: [IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

2010-10-28 Thread Holt
Let's do it, conveniently right by Alewife's Red Line subway stop: I will help cater -- thanks so much for your devotion to the cause Caroline. On 10/28/2010 11:30 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: Great idea! I can host parties at my new T Accessible house in Arlington if that helps. On Thu, Oct

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

2010-10-28 Thread Holt
Walter right next to me here at OLPC in Cambridge, MA wants to clarify the dates below before they are republished, getting them closer to Luke's original Nov 10 and Nov 14-27 suggestions as he and Luke see fit -- thanks for holding the presses etc until Walter finds a computer and clarifies

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Zitat von John Watlington w...@laptop.org: There is no argument that a great teacher influences many children in the right direction. But such an effort to improve teachers is completely orthogonal

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-28 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Zitat von John Watlington w...@laptop.org: There is no argument that a great teacher influences many children in

Re: [IAEP] OpenEd Conference / Mozilla Drumbeat Festival

2010-10-28 Thread Werner Westermann
Sorry the delay, we've held our Moodle Moot (Moodle chilean users anual gathering: moodlemoot.cl) that has kept me very occupied. Great news!! Looking forward to meeting you. The Drumbeat is a very flexible space to show Sugar's potential, there's a lot of activities. I was planning to propose