[IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Hackaday reports on teacher-less deployment. Hadn't heard this was already out there, my apologies to all who knew this was an old thing. Apparently 6 months already? Anybody here connected with this deployment? On 10/31/2012 03:02 PM, Hack a Day wrote: WordPress.com Mike Szczys posted: " We

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Mike Lee
Hi Yama, That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the community. The article is based on an education panel at EmTech 2012 that, for some reason, has not been posted as video yet. Check here: http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/12/

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Oct 31 2012, Mike Lee wrote: > That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the > community. The article is based on an education panel at EmTech 2012 > that, for some reason, has not been posted as video yet. Check > here: http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/12/ > >

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Mike Lee
Chris, I stand corrected. Mike On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 31 2012, Mike Lee wrote: > > That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the > > community. The article is based on an education panel at EmTech 2012 > > that, for some reason

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Indeed, and I recall y'all asking for feedback in this very list about Nell (feedback that I gave but never heard from since :-)) Anyway, this is FASCINATING in so many ways. 1) this is a pilot (or per-pilot?), when OLPC used to discourage pilots 2) applications launch is tracked. OLPC/Sugar use

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
1 Oct 2012 20:41:32 -0400 > CC: IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamap...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild? > > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 31 2012, Mike Lee wrote: > > That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the > > community. The arti

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > Indeed, and I recall y'all asking for feedback in this very list about > Nell (feedback that I gave but never heard from since :-)) > > Anyway, this is FASCINATING in so many ways. > 1) this is a pilot (or per-pilot?), when OLPC used to dis

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > > See Sugar Stats and Sugar Network. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Usage_Statistics and > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Server_Kit/Guide/Usage_Statistics > > cheers, > Sameer > and http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Thank you, from the links it seems possible. Has this been used, do we know at least a bit, *what are kids using XO/Sugar for*? Can you kindly point us to that data? (high granularity especially welcome) Thanks! (Ethiopia, I covet your data also!) On 10/31/2012 08:20 PM, Walter Bender wrot

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
of the requirements for good academic research. From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: c...@laptop.org; curious...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:04:15 -0700 CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamap...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild? Here! Here! Cheers for Chris Ball

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Yama Ploskonka
ets all of the requirements for good academic research. From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: c...@laptop.org; curious...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:04:15 -0700 CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamap...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in th

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Mike Lee
oject and data. It is a very well > designed study that meets all of the requirements for good academic > research. > > > > -------------- > From: cbige...@hotmail.com > To: c...@laptop.org; curious...@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:04:15 -0700 >

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-11-01 Thread Jerry
ed >> language such as Chinese. >> That is probably why the Chinese government invented the phonetic pinyin >> system. >> >> Caryl >> >> BTW... C.Scott and Chris describe the theory and methods behind the project >> and data. It is a very well >>

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-11-01 Thread Yama Ploskonka
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