Marta,
Thank you again for elucidating the broader issues around evaluating OLPC
impact. I am going to keep these emails as they are so well written and your
points so well made. Let us all broadly distribute this rich contribution.
I like your direction, not just a grant to test, but
== Sugar Digest ==
1. I spent some time working on the nutrition plugin for Turtle Blocks
last weekend. I'm actually quite intrigued by the potential. So far, I
have built a small database of foods (banana, apple, chocolate cake,
and a chocolate chip cookie), where each object has an associated
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Fred juma fredwa...@yahoo.com wrote:
Bungoma OLPC HIV/AIDS XO project has introduced more activities.Now there
is internet connection on XO for children in primary Schools.Community
outreach using XO machines has been introduced.the rural community is so
So I am taking a P2PU course On How to Teach Web Programmin to Free Range
Learnershttp://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-to-teach-webcraft-and-programming-to-free-range-students/and
a couple of questions came up:
So I pose them to the community:
1. What makes examples good for novices?
2. How do we
Steve,
Your question made me think about research I read about a couple of years
ago. The researcher was investigating narratives between patients and
doctors. Their major finding was that patients naturally needed to narrate
what they were experiencing, and that close to 100% of the time, the
The Replacing Textbooks server, http://booki.treehouse.org/ is back up
on its new hardware. Everything is functioning as before, as far as I
can tell.
--
Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling
Lawson,
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Lawson English lengli...@cox.net wrote:
I can't give you any stats other than positive feedback I have gotten,
but the Salman Khan style of video teaching seems to work well for
programming as well as for math.
I generally like the Salman Khan
Hi...
RE the Khan Academy programming video... I have tried some of them in parallel
with hands-on, and while they do teach some concepts well, they aren't
particularly exciting. Perhaps that is why I stopped working on them. I really
believe that the Khan Academy videos, and other video
