Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-09 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Bernie, Sorry to be so slow in answering. I suggest trying to find out some of the things that the teacher and school are already focusing on and relate your use of Sugar to those. Often, the teacher, grade or school will have some area of instruction that they are trying to improve.

[IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
There's a possibility for a class of five graders in Florence to pilot SoaS next year. Our friends of OLPC Italia came up with a good question: how would an introductory class for Sugar work in practice? Both teachers and kids will be present to learn simultaneously, which makes things more

Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: There's a possibility for a class of fifth graders in Florence to pilot SoaS next year. [...] Who actually went through such experience already? How was the class organized? What materials were used? And, more importantly,

Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Marten Vijn
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:28 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: There's a possibility for a class of five graders in Florence to pilot SoaS next year. Our friends of OLPC Italia came up with a good question: how would an introductory class for Sugar work in practice? Both teachers and kids will

Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 06/04/09 17:05, Marten Vijn wrote: 1. Outside a class a introduced XO's a group of 6 kids. I used a freeform (no structure). Kids when to youtube and hyves and both sites did not work. Kids got frustrated of the XO's slowness. 2. I an class with only one XO we told the teacher let kids

Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Most kids in developed countries know that some computers perform better than others, and use their favorite YouTube video as an informal benchmark. They are also exposed to the gadget culture of cellphones as MP3 players, videogame consoles, GPS car systems, and so on. An XO-1 faces stiff

Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 06/04/09 21:05, Sean DALY wrote: I showed SoaS to a friend recently, connected to his wireless network and the Neighborhood View filled up with friends from the jabber server. His eyes popped and he got really excited but then asked questions about how that will scale if hundreds/thousands

Re: [IAEP] Introducing kids to Sugar

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Chua
Ask the olpc_bos...@lists.laptop.org list - they just did this with 6th graders in Cambridge. If you find me on IRC, I can tell you what I know as well. (Hm. Must prod Harvard students to post more notes about how this went.) --Mel ___ IAEP -- It's An