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

2010-10-29 Thread Teemu Leinonen
On 26.10.2010, at 20.12, Caryl Bigenho wrote: I watched Negroponte on the Colbert show last night. Nice. He seems to have toned down his former we don't need teachers... kids will do it all line a bit, but it is still implied. Sugata Mitra implies the same in his TED talk:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] I'm VERY offline in Haiti for 2 weeks! [assume the role of peer-teacher indeed!]

2010-10-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Teemu is right! I posted the older talk by mistake. The newer one shows much more about the application of Mitra's work in a wider range of situations and with a wider range of subjects. The first (which I just watched for the first time) does show some great data and results and is

[IAEP] Community Deployment MAP SPRINT - Dec 27-31 in Boston

2010-10-29 Thread Holt
Talented social cartographers deployment folks from across the OLPC/Sugar community will be fly to Boston Dec 27-31 -- to physically map our geo-social fabric of small/medium/large implementations in completely new ways -- on and around CMU/Nick Doiron's rapidly evolving global

[IAEP] FW: [Sur] Oscar Becerra contesta (2 5 veces) al artículo de Christoph Derndorfer

2010-10-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I know some of you have already seen and commented on this, but I found it via the Latin American lists and wanted to pass it along to the rest of you, who like me, may have missed it. Caryl The translation of the sur list title and comment: Oscar Becerra answers the article by