On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Bastien <b...@altern.org> wrote: > All right, don't scream and run away. > > http://sankore.org/ is a project by a french governemental department > (DIENA¹) for selling low-cost digital whiteboards to teachers in Africa. > > OLPC France has been sollicited by the DIENA back in october 2010, and > I underlined the differences between the OLPC/Sugar educational approach > and that of the Sankoré project: > > | Sankoré project | OLPC / Sugar | > |----------------------------------+------------------------------------| > | one computer per teacher | one laptop per child | > | digital whiteboards for teachers | small laptops for children | > | in-school program | always-available learning resource | > > Still, since people from the Sankoré project appear to look favorably > at Free Software in education (they opened the code for the Sankoré > application -- http://open-sankore.org, are using Ubuntu and consider > deploying Kiwix to let users browse Wikipedia offline) we kept in touch. > > Now a member of OLPC France, also working for the DIENA, is about to > push the idea of having Sugar installed on the teachers laptop. > > 1) How would you consider this idea? > > 2) What set of meaningful activities would you pick up?
Beyond the usual suspects: web browser and other document and media activities, I'd focus on activities such as Etoys and Turtle Art. But also, many games could be done interactively with a class where students are asked for their rationale as they suggest moves. I am thinking for example of Sokoban. -walter > > Hope you're still here. And thanks in advance for any answer! > > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel