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

2010-11-01 Thread Rakesh Biswas
Thanks Subbu for the great link on the Rishi valley initiative. It would really change the face of Indian education if what has been proposed on the web site can be really implemented. :-) On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Great stuff! Thanks for the

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

2010-11-01 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 01 Nov 2010 2:07:49 pm Rakesh Biswas wrote: Thanks Subbu for the great link on the Rishi valley initiative. err... It was Yamandu Poslonka who posted the link. .. Subbu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Caos] Oscar Becerra contesta (2 5 veces) al art�culo de Christoph Derndorfer

2010-11-01 Thread Jameson Quinn
El 31 de octubre de 2010 20:39, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@bolinux.orgescribió: Perdona, Jameson, me refería a una crítica a este estudio anterior a lo que vi en el blog de Tony. Tony se queja de la metodología. Esa otra crítica (no recuerdo URL, lo siento) indicaba que los datos no eran

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Caos] Oscar Becerra contesta (2 5 veces) al art�culo de Christoph Derndorfer

2010-11-01 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
hmmm... Creo que desde un punto de vista de ciencia tienes todo el derecho de opinar que un determinado estudio tiene falencias graves desde un punto de vista metodológico, y pues descartar las conclusiones a las que ha llegado siguiendo dicha metodología, pero no creo razonable ni apropiado

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

2010-11-01 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
As far as I know it *is* being implemented - with much success. There seems to be a delay in reporting on how things are going - usual issue, people good at doing things are not necessarily the best at advertizing them... I've been pushing a bit for already a year on getting someone to

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-11-01

2010-11-01 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. I first met Alan Kay in the late 1970s. I was working on a personalized news project – think ''Google News'' meets ''Facebook'' – for which Alan came up with the name ''NewsPeek'' – a play off of George Orwell's ''New Speak''. It was then that I first heard Alan's definition

[IAEP] FYI: Etoys-to-go works on PowerPC Macs

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... A bit of surprising info (Bert F. was surprised), I tried Etoys-to-Go on an older PowerBook G4 running OS-10.4.11. It works... really well! (So far). This should be good news to folks dealing with schools that have older G4 machines and no budget to upgrade. I wish we could do the

[IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link on the olpc-socal list, but Google isn't very helpful this morning. Can someone send me the link for the download? TIACaryl

Re: [IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Not sure if it is the latest rev: http://open1to1.msln.net/MapleSugar/ On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link on the olpc-socal list, but Google isn't very

Re: [IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl: this page has details: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Maple-syrup_Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_with_Sugar_and_many_other_applications_for_netbooks http://people.sugarlabs.org/it/OLD/ (original site) Enjoy; Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, I have a

[IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link on the olpc-socal list, but Google isn't very helpful this morning. Can someone send me the link for the download? TIACaryl

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-11-01

2010-11-01 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 01.11.2010 17:17, schrieb Walter Bender: Why am I reminiscing about Alan Kay? When I read Christoph Derndorfer's article on OLPC Peru [http://edutechdebate.org/olpc-in-south-america/olpc-in-peru-one-laptop-per-child-problems/], Oscar Becerra's response, and the subsequent follow up

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Caos] Oscar Becerra contesta (2 5 veces) al art�culo de Christoph Derndorfer

2010-11-01 Thread Jameson Quinn
El 1 de noviembre de 2010 08:31, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comescribió: hmmm... Creo que desde un punto de vista de ciencia tienes todo el derecho de opinar que un determinado estudio tiene falencias graves desde un punto de vista metodológico, y pues descartar las conclusiones a las

Re: [IAEP] Grannie support for children's learning with computers

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Caroline, Sounds like a great project! Take the time to watch all of this TED talk featuring Sugata Mirta. It is well worth the time! You will see how the Granny Cloud was used in Newcastle and how children filled the role in other situations.