On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Hi Sascha,
the best work in this context that I've seen so far is Sven Bergman's
master thesis: Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your
students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners—students who learn best
through hands-on activities—are said to do better in classes that feature
tony has a very interesting blog about critical literacy as well as quite a
few other recent great turtle art projects
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/12/computer-programming-and-acquisition-of.html
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/
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Scratch cover story of the November 2009 issue of CACM, the monthly magazine
of the Association for Computing Machinery
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdf
Clear explanation of design principles along with successful, interesting
project ideas including some great
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 07.11.2009, at 23:28, Bill Kerr wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 07.11.2009, at 04:48, Bill Kerr wrote:
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 07.11.2009, at 04:48, Bill Kerr wrote:
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org
wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:10, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
http
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:
I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high
official in the Bolivian government.
Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear,
simple and please objective answers
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:
I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high
official in the Bolivian government.
Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear,
simple and please objective answers
from walter's digest:
2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from
Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using
Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language
version. She has kindly made it available for download (See
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote:
This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my
inbox... If so, my apologies.
A researcher in my office subscribes to Miller-McCune magazine, whose
slogan is Turning Research into Solutions. After
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote:
This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my
inbox... If so, my apologies.
A researcher in my office subscribes to Miller
it would be good to have a tile that only cleaned the graphics and kept the
other setting such as current pen thickness, colour, turtle position,
heading etc
logowriter had a
rg reset graphics which acted like the TA clean
and a
clean which acted like I'm suggesting in my first line, other
, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
Image attached
Forty shapes to make in Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ or some other
version of logo, such as Turtle
Arthttp://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art.
It's hard to see the thumbnail but click on it for a larger view
I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version
If I have a project loaded, saved and named
Then go into the journal and try to load an older saved version then it
doesn't load but puts me back to the current open version
I have to first close the current version and then open the
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Bill,
On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:09, Bill Kerr wrote:
I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version
If I have a project loaded, saved and named
Then go into the journal and try to load an older saved
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version
If I have a project loaded, saved and named
Then go into the journal and try to load an
svg paths for arcs don't accept decimal values
the icon ends up being smudged all over the place in a green colour
an example of something that should work but doesn't in sugar
!-- Arms CREATES ERROR , paths don't take decimals in sugar, replace with
beziers
path d=M 18 35 A .5 .1 15 0 0 18 38
/kittyAngles.html
students were off trying to build the shapes, or coming up with new ones
...some seem to find their niche with this
-Original Message-
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Sent: Mon 8/31/2009 9:19 PM
To: iaep
Subject: [IAEP] 40 maths
math.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
Image attached
Forty shapes to make in Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ or some other
version of logo, such as Turtle
Arthttp://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art.
It's hard to see the thumbnail but click
arising out of my class work with SVG icons
many of the students wanted some fixed colours in their replacement icons
and I wanted them to demo ability to reset colours within sugar
both are possible by setting some colours with either names or hexadecimal
and setting other colours using
!)
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thanks Gary
the default single click shape does not work for the box but does work for
circle and triangle
I think there needs to be clear install instructions for those doing this
for the first time. I wasn't sure what to do. I found some instructions here
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Bill,
On 29 Aug 2009, at 14:44, Bill Kerr wrote:
the default single click shape does not work for the box but does work for
circle and triangle
Just to confirm, this is tested and working. But, I think what
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote:
Hi Bill,
On 30 Aug 2009, at 01:30, Bill Kerr wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
Hi Bill,
On 29 Aug 2009, at 14:44, Bill Kerr wrote:
the default single click
n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
=== Sugar Digest ===
4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in
education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity
with Microsoft. It is disappointing that the FSF is not making any
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote:
n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender
walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
=== Sugar Digest ===
4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.comwrote:
After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really
appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar.
They will make an update - stay tuned.
the picture is gone but the
thanks for information, tony
What I stress to my students initially is the strong underlying rationale
for knowing more about SVGs. Some of the points I go over with them more
than once are:
- animations are fairly easy to achieve (SMIL or Synchronised Multimedia
Integration Language is
Sugar does not support SVG animations? I just tried to replace the XO icon
with an SVG animation as an extension of the
http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar exercise - the icon
replaced but was not animated.
I'm seeking confirmation that this is correct and would be interested in
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Lucian Branescu
lucian.brane...@gmail.comwrote:
I've tried animations as well (with JavaScript) and indeed they don't work.
However, I'm not sure they really are a good idea for icons. They may
get confusing or annoying.
I agree that animated icons become
happy to answer questions about this vital issue.
Best wishes,
Alan
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*To:* Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com
*Cc:* Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com; iaep SugarLabs
iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; Brian Jordan bcjor...@gmail.com
A year ago one of my students built a jabber server following instructions
that are now deprecated:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd
Today we tried to use it with Soas (0.84). The jabber server could see the
sugar ids but collaboration didn't work.
(Just to clarify collaboration does
if you wanted answers :-)
On 15 Aug 2009, at 02:51, Bill Kerr wrote:
I might try these next week and see how they go:
does altering the size of an object affect its drop time?
No
does joining objects together (large and small) affect drop time?
No
Remember, you can run all cases at once
hi alan,
I'm not sure how your argument here would not apply also to etoys?
Is your objection mainly to the name of the program - physics?
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Folks
I've previously written a fair amount on this list about what real
and happy students
are easier to have discussions with about more complex topics.
Just some ideas for further discussion
Best wishes,
Alan
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*Cc:* Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com; iaep
one possibility would be to not attempt to teach physics but to make a game
good for introduction and also for teamwork
see
http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html
http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html
problems in different ways.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
one possibility would be to not attempt to teach physics but to make a
game
good for introduction and also for teamwork
see
http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html
http
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote:
Sascha Silbe wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote:
The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older
computers
at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons
thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too)
sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial
I keep getting messages like liveuser is not in the sudoers file and
Permission denied for example when I try to make a backup file with cp
SoaS is acting more like a live CD when it comes to linux
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
===Sugar Digest===
In the meanwhile, we need to: experiment with more USB manufacturers;
be more careful about characterizing the different failure modes; do
some workflow experiments to see if we can minimize
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Sascha Silbe
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote:
The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older
computers
at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
1) once I have created a stick can I upgrade just one
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Hi Bill,
I'm excited that you are doing pilot
supply a phone number to call if it is not working?
won't the families have to go into CMOS (or whatever) to configure booting
off the USB stick? I have had students take sticks home (last year) and come
back saying they can't get it to work. To enter CMOS requires holding down
either Delete or F2
is this a bug in the SoaS version of Calculator?
There seems to be an error in the trigonomety because tan 45 = 1.62 whether
set on degrees or radians. That is correct for radians but it should change
to tan 45 = 1. for degrees. On the SoaS version the degrees / radians
button is found under
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
Is Internet access working out of the box?
7) Had to type about:config into Browse and muck around with proxy
settings
to get internet access - I
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
wrote:
Hi Bill,
I'm excited that you are doing pilot. How old are the kids? From the blog
posts it looks like you have some XOs, are you using SoaS on other computers
too?
thanks for the mail, Caroline
one xo
to
save, this will severely limit what we can do with it. Physics is by far the
most popular activity in free exploration provided for the first few lessons
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Thanks for detailed and comprehensive report Sean. I hadn't understand the
importance of visuals and your report explained that very clearly.
btw your report doesn't contain any links - I found the gallery page
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallerypage=gallery but still
wasn't sure
: Kids in Ethiopia don't have the internet in a nearby cloud ...
And just noticed that the sugar labs home page describes the xo as a
netbook: http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
When we began the project, I lobbied to call it a Children's Machine (CM)
in reference both to Seymour Papert's book and as a reference to the CM
series of connection machines that Danny Hillis created at Thinking
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote:
From: K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com
On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 11:23:24 pm Alan Kay wrote:
what is more interesting is how well certain ways of thinking work
in finding strong models of phenomena compared to
*Some feedback:
Persistent storage overlay*
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Windows_Users
6. Set the *Persistent Storage* slider to at least 160 MB (use more if you
have a drive with more space);
This confused me until I did some tests and discovered that if you don't do
I'm not sure what is meant by a big tent
Why do some people want a big tent for learning theory but not a big tent
which accepts both FOSS and proprietary software? Phrasing it that way is
intended to encourage people to think about what sort of thing is learning
and hopefully will not be
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my support for the continuation of widespread unreasonable behaviour (in the
xo tradition) is based on acceptance of that reality
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
in part this is a discussion about what works in the educational
marketplace and what is cutting
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
From: Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education ? education
has
to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the
country ? not something you can
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Kathy Pusztavari ka...@kathyandcalvin.com
wrote:
How can this principle of customizable math be applied to framework
development?
By showing exemplars that change as you proceed through your teaching
sequence.
See
Designing Effective Mathematical
I've transcribed a large portion of this interview on my blog:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html
might be handy if you don't have 60 minutes to spare
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
excellent interview, well worth
hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I
thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much:
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education has
to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the
country – not
excellent interview, well worth listening to
this gave me a clearer impression of the challenges facing an xo deployment
than anything else I have seen, read or heard - although much of it is nepal
specific I suspect that much of it would also apply to other developing
countries too
excellent
http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths
http://gregdek.livejournal.com/45211.html
I think what is missing in the approach outlined by Greg here (and in
curriculum frameworks in general) is no real consideration of the deep
structure of maths or of how children learn maths, the
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
marc...@sugarlabs.orgwrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Yes we need to think about whether these people are using Python, eToys,
JavaScript or Flash to convert these worksheets into a
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:18 -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
(3) We need lots more Activities.
While there is consensus on this point, there is not consensus on the
best way to get a lot more Activities. That is, pulling a
I'm cutting and pasting because the discussion became broken up.
Bryan:
I love constructionism but too often we focus exclusively high-level
math and science and not foundational skills or art, literature,
grammar, health, etc. By foundational skills I mean basic literacy and
numeracy. Kids can't
Bryan:
It takes a long time to train teachers to use Etoys who have never used
a computer before. Etoys _requires_ mastery of the touchpad and that was
more than we could teach in 2 weeks of training. Dragging and dropping
is a non-trivial skill.
I think we can train teachers familiar w/
I think these resources are very valuable for anyone advising others about
how to get started with XO deployment and teacher training. I presume
similar programmes have been run in other countries but haven't seen them
written up to this level of detail.
David has been been working as an educator
http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/325
Notes from Nepal's OLPC Deployments
I thought this was really interesting and informative
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tech considerations aside part of the appeal (in india and elsewhere) would
be control, the computers stay in the labs, don't go home where students can
then surf for porn etc.
we are in the middle of a mandatory adult internet censorship battle in
australia - enormous resistance and the
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/12/alan-kay-after-40-years-dynabook-is-not.html
I have transcribed a section of Alan Kay's recent presentation marking 40
years anniversary of the dynabook because I see it as an important
contribution to ongoing discussions about the significance and prospects
good responses to leigh blackall's complaints by Jim Tittsler and David
Leeming on this Tuvaluans on Wikieducator thread (scroll down)
http://groups.google.co.nz/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/410a6bb8eaf5aa66
(pointed out by Leigh himself on his blog)
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:39 AM,
Freedom Law Center. This is
exactly what they do. If you want an MIT-style license, they can help you
with this too. It's ultimately up to you, but doing a license without a
lawyer never works.
PJ
Bill Kerr wrote:
Scratch forum:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=77320
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Elsa Culler wrote:
Hi,
Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter)
were asked to come up with a list of
Scratch forum:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=77320#p77320
From Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab:
There has been some discussion in the Scratch Team about this. Overall our
concern is to avoid forks. In general forks are good because bring diversity
but
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Bill Kerr wrote:
Problems:
* not enough activities
This will become better over time. Since we need to package activities for
Fedora and they need to be reviewed, there can be a bit
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin,
which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD.
So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Jonas Smedegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:53:05PM +1030, Bill Kerr wrote:
I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from
free to non commercial
That is indeed sad
I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from free to
non commercial
On reading the threads about the Squeak / Etoys / Debian issues then it
would appear to me that this will effect the distribution of Scratch on
Sugar to Debian at least, perhaps others
Tom Hoffman wrote
I have edited my initial post on this thread and posted to the Scratch
forum:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=76772#p76772
(also forwarded a copy to mitch resnick and invited him to comment here)
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/Sugar+UI
is this useful feedback?
I think it's useful in itself, but there needs to happen quite a bit
of work before
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, Sep
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill,
Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler,
and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of narrative as it might apply
to a user interface designed for engaging children in the world of
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fedora live CD for sugar
my impression is that it hasn't developed to the point where I should
upgrade for school use, eg. missing activities
via rob costello
wolfram's mathematica page says:
*Mathematica* has been ported to the OLPC $100 laptop
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/MathEducationSoftware.html
I can't see it on the activities page - does anyone have information about
this?
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http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/Sugar+UI
is this useful feedback?
flux, year 10 student australia, has been slack in recording his criticisms
(tends to mouth off with a negative but informed tone) but I sat with him
and wrote them down myself, insisting on a bit more detail - he's one of two
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Bill Kerr wrote:
walter wrote in the digest:
Any and all feedback is enormously valuable: please speak up
A year 10 class at my school in australia is currently evaluating
sugar activities using USB keys - various
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inspired by Sameer's recent conversations with a pair of Montessori
Kindergarden teachers. I went to talk to Cynthia Solomon of the OLPC
Learning team. We got to talking about the theory of Activities and a few
other
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hi Seth and all,
Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Constructionism
We are developing Constructionism as a theory of learning and
education.
Constructionism is based on two different senses of construction. It is
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:09 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Product.Check.
Delivery Mechanism. Check.
Customers hmmm.
Last week I sent out a community outreach update in which I stated that
engaging the education community was blocked until we
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