On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 02:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bryan Berry wrote: > | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like > | myself) underestimate the importance of narratives b/c we are surrounded > | by libraries, online tutorials in our native language, extensive > | versions of wikipedia in our language, etc. There's a real drought of > | narratives for poor countries. > > I don't know what you mean by narrative. If I were to pick a word to > describe libraries, online tutorials, wikipedia, and other similar > resources, I would choose "information". I go to wikipedia to learn > facts, not stories.
I basically mean "structured information" put into a structure by a human(s) intended to best build up concepts. > I agree that providing information is good and important for education. > > I don't see how OLPC or Sugar lacks tools to provide information. > Including a digital textbook into a Sugar build for XO is extremely easy. > ~ We simply don't have the textbooks. The problem, in this case, seems > much more like a lack of "content" and translators. That effort is > important and worthwhile, but seems quite independent of Sugar. I agree on this. I don't see how narratives fit into Sugar. Michael Stone has some interesting ideas on this though. I think that Sugar should focus on collaboration and discovery and tools like Moodle can provide the narrative. > - --Ben > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjoXcEACgkQUJT6e6HFtqR3awCgg4lNrxa3nTDLVf1NIATAgwdF > ymEAn1DJ7qaNwIHgirT32K00Gj2ufEKI > =XKff > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar