It would be good and helpful to attempt to make contact with anyone
within Rwanda that is using Sugar on Positivos, official or otherwise,
but also anyone who is involved with the official distribution of
Positivos within Rwanda. Can you help us on this front, Samson?
Walter Bender <mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com>
November 25, 2019 at 6:57 AM
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:38 AM Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net
<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
The current school year in Rwanda is just ending and the new year
starts
January 6. The Positivos have been distributed to GS (Groupe
Scolaire)
schools which are public with grades from entry to S3 (9th grade).
The ICT Curriculum is based on Windows - with some planned
expansion to
include mobile techniques. The Positivos are distributed with
Windows 10
installed. Neither the Positivos or XOs currently include touch
screen
technology.
Note: as far as I know, Rwanda is the largest still active XO
deployment. The need is to find a bridge between the student's three
years of primary school XO experience and their further ICT
instruction.The Positivo hard drive is large enough to support an
Ubuntu/Sugar install alongside.. Some teachers are making this
install
on their own initiative. The article hints that Rwanda may take
official
advantage of this opportunity.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to support this effort.
I am currently in Rwanda working with Care 4 Kids, a German
philanthropy
supporting the use of the XO. Care 4 Kids provides interns - local A
Level graduates in ICT to selected schools. In 2019 these interns
supported five GS schools in Kigali province (XO ICT enrollment in
the
thousands). In 2020, there will be five two-person teams of interns.
Four teams supporting a school in one of the provinces and
working with
teachers from five surrounding schools. The Kigali team will
continue to
support the five 2019 schools. Their support provided in the native
language has proven effective and popular.
Is there a translation team we could tap into?
As far as bridging the two worlds, some of our apps could be gateways,
such as Music Blocks, which run just as well in Windows as Sugar.
Tony
On 25/11/2019 01:56, James Cameron wrote:
> Thanks Samson.
>
> For Sugar Labs, the most important part is "the machines will
have the
> same modules (interface) for children lesson," so there's an
> opportunity for Sugar Labs to remain involved.
>
> I don't know what operating system REB are using, but OLPC OS
18.04.0
> based on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and Sugar will likely work straight away on
> PC-compatible laptops, and can be customised and rebuilt. Our OLPC
> servers do see update requests from countries were we have not
> distributed our PC-compatible laptops, which is cool.
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:17:21PM +0100, Samson Goddy wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I saw this article online, and I thought it should be an
interesting read[1].
>>
>> [1][1]https://ktpress.rw/2019/11/
>> from-olpc-xo-to-positivo-rwanda-sets-the-bar-higher/
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>>
>> Samson Goddy
>>
>> Twitter: [2]https://twitter.com/samson_goddy
>> Email: [3]samsongo...@sugarlabs.org
<mailto:samsongo...@sugarlabs.org>
>> [4]samsongo...@gmail.com
<mailto:samsongo...@gmail.com>
>>
>> Website: [5]https://samsongoddy.me/
>>
>> References:
>>
>> [1]
https://ktpress.rw/2019/11/from-olpc-xo-to-positivo-rwanda-sets-the-bar-higher/
>> [2] https://twitter.com/samson_goddy
>> [3] mailto:samsongo...@sugarlabs.org
<mailto:samsongo...@sugarlabs.org>
>> [4] mailto:samsongo...@gmail.com <mailto:samsongo...@gmail.com>
>> [5] https://www.sugarlabs.org/
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Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>
November 25, 2019 at 12:40 AM
The current school year in Rwanda is just ending and the new year
starts January 6. The Positivos have been distributed to GS (Groupe
Scolaire) schools which are public with grades from entry to S3 (9th
grade).
The ICT Curriculum is based on Windows - with some planned expansion
to include mobile techniques. The Positivos are distributed with
Windows 10 installed. Neither the Positivos or XOs currently include
touch screen technology.
Note: as far as I know, Rwanda is the largest still active XO
deployment. The need is to find a bridge between the student's three
years of primary school XO experience and their further ICT
instruction.The Positivo hard drive is large enough to support an
Ubuntu/Sugar install alongside.. Some teachers are making this install
on their own initiative. The article hints that Rwanda may take
official advantage of this opportunity.
I am currently in Rwanda working with Care 4 Kids, a German
philanthropy supporting the use of the XO. Care 4 Kids provides
interns - local A Level graduates in ICT to selected schools. In 2019
these interns supported five GS schools in Kigali province (XO ICT
enrollment in the thousands). In 2020, there will be five two-person
teams of interns. Four teams supporting a school in one of the
provinces and working with teachers from five surrounding schools. The
Kigali team will continue to support the five 2019 schools. Their
support provided in the native language has proven effective and popular.
Tony
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James Cameron <mailto:qu...@laptop.org>
November 24, 2019 at 3:56 PM
Thanks Samson.
For Sugar Labs, the most important part is "the machines will have the
same modules (interface) for children lesson," so there's an
opportunity for Sugar Labs to remain involved.
I don't know what operating system REB are using, but OLPC OS 18.04.0
based on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and Sugar will likely work straight away on
PC-compatible laptops, and can be customised and rebuilt. Our OLPC
servers do see update requests from countries were we have not
distributed our PC-compatible laptops, which is cool.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:17:21PM +0100, Samson Goddy wrote:
Hello everyone,
I saw this article online, and I thought it should be an interesting read[1].
[1][1]https://ktpress.rw/2019/11/
from-olpc-xo-to-positivo-rwanda-sets-the-bar-higher/
Regards
--
Samson Goddy
Twitter: [2]https://twitter.com/samson_goddy
Email: [3]samsongo...@sugarlabs.org
[4]samsongo...@gmail.com
Website: [5]https://samsongoddy.me/
References:
[1]
https://ktpress.rw/2019/11/from-olpc-xo-to-positivo-rwanda-sets-the-bar-higher/
[2] https://twitter.com/samson_goddy
[3] mailto:samsongo...@sugarlabs.org
[4] mailto:samsongo...@gmail.com
[5] https://www.sugarlabs.org/
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Samson Goddy <mailto:samsongo...@gmail.com>
November 24, 2019 at 3:17 AM
Hello everyone,
I saw this article online, and I thought it should be an interesting
read[1].
[1]https://ktpress.rw/2019/11/from-olpc-xo-to-positivo-rwanda-sets-the-bar-higher/
Regards
--
Samson Goddy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/samson_goddy
Email: samsongo...@sugarlabs.org <mailto:samsongo...@sugarlabs.org>
samsongo...@gmail.com <mailto:samsongo...@gmail.com>
Website: https://samsongoddy.me/ <https://www.sugarlabs.org/>
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