[IAEP] Education science resources

2017-09-17 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
uot; pioneer John Holt. Find it at https://johnholtgws.squarespace.com/ and learn more about this influential person at https://johnholtgws.squarespace.com/who-was-john-holt/ Ron Feigenblatt ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@l

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Los Angeles ditching Apple/Pearson iPad program

2015-04-18 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
Gee, I had forgotten about the scandal surrounding the Birmingham, AL mayor who had massively deployed OLPCs in his city schools until you raised this LA Apple program. When will some enterprising politician drive a stake into the heart of this monster we call public education and replace it with a

[IAEP] Monty Python code

2013-08-30 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 8/29/13, Walter Bender wrote: > John Nash was a good friend of my algebra professor at Harvard, George > Mackey, my mentor at MIT, Marvin Minsky, and my daughter's diff eq. > professor at MIT, Arthur P. Mattuck. And I have a cousin who lives in > Paris. And my son has been to Giza > > -walt

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-08-22

2013-08-28 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 8/23/13, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > ...Spirituality for Kids seems to be closely associated with the Kabbalah > Center. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah_Centre > > Tony I cannot resist observing that screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who penned the script for "The DaVinci Code" (w

[IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

2013-05-30 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 5/17/13, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > Hello, > we need to decide if we want the next release to be 1.0 or 0.100. One asks, what should one call the software to be released? I will not bore people by repeating why I think "Sugar" is a bad name. By now, its use is fait accompli. But I think one shou

[IAEP] Sugar on Android (was Questions for SCaLE 11X)

2013-02-24 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 2/21/13, Sean DALY wrote: > The Sugar Labs Oversight Board confirmed Android compatibility as a > strategic goal at the January 14 meeting [1]... > 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2013-01-14 Thanks, Sean. You're the best!

[IAEP] Questions for SCaLE 11X

2013-02-22 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 2/20/13, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Also, if you think of anything else people are likely to ask that > isn't listed here, please include the question and, if you know it, the > answer. Q. I thought this was (circa 2005) a "$100 laptop" whose price could "only go down over time due to Moore's Law.

[IAEP] Sugar on Android (was Questions for SCaLE 11X)

2013-02-21 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
> On 21 February 2013 09:35, Ron Feigenblatt wrote: >> The big news is that OLPC reports potential buyers have expressed >> interest in Android, so it has a plan to move the XO-4 that way... >> could Sugar sit on top of Android rather than Linux Fedora by then? On 2/21/13,

Re: [IAEP] Questions for SCaLE 11X

2013-02-21 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
Hi Caryl, On 2/20/13, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > 1) What is the latest total number of XOs of all types "deployed" around the > world, including developer machines, G1G1, large deployments, and small > deployments.? > (The wiki says 2 million as of March 2011… two years ago.) Last month at CES, OLP

[IAEP] First WSIS+10 Review Meeting, February 25-27, UNESCO (Paris)

2013-02-20 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 2/19/13, Sean DALY wrote: > First WSIS+10 Review Meeting: Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and > Sustainable Development... Remote participation: > http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/wsis-10-review-event-25-27-february-2013/remote-partici

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-02-04

2013-02-04 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
ding of .ogv files. On the other hand, when I post >videos, I use Dailymotion, because it supports .ogv. And yet I admit >to still watching the occasional Youtube video. | Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:16:34 -0500 | Subject: Re: Sugar and OLPC | From: Ron Feigenblatt | To: Sean Daly | | ...On

[IAEP] Wiki editing

2013-02-02 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 2/2/13, Frederick Grose wrote: > Be assured that all changes saved in a wiki can be recovered from the 'View > history' tab for a page. Indeed. But sometimes one has worthy reasons for assigning pre-emptive editorial power over a page to an individual. For example, shouldn't the current leade

[IAEP] Raspberry PI

2013-02-02 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 2/2/13, Chris Leonard wrote: >... Please just make the changes you think need to be made, that is why we > keep information on a wiki, so that anyone can contribute to improving > it's quality or discoverability. Chris, are you the "wikimaster"? I can't seem to use the wiki to find out who is!

[IAEP] Essay on applying netbooks to high school ("secondary") education, especially STEM

2013-02-01 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
Having now discovered this mailing list, I will point you at a lengthy essay I wrote last spring on applying netbooks to high school ("secondary") education, especially STEM ("Science Technology Engineering Mathematics" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields ). It was inspired by a USA fede

[IAEP] Raspberry PI

2013-02-01 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
Hello, First, a short detour of interest to all the friends of Sugar Labs (SL). Applying the "5 Whys": Now and then, I have participated in OLPC and SL ever since the former effort debuted, but today is the very first time I have looked at this IAEP Mailing List. Why? Likely because when I discov

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-08-03 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
Hello, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in > Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). > > I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-) > > ...As an aside, my personal interest in the X101 i

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-30 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 5/30/11, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > it's still early days but it looks like the ASUS Eee PC X101 presented > at a pre-Computex press event today could be a good platform for Sugar. > ...Since it runs Meego I would assume that on the software side of things > getting other Linux distributions