On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in > summary): > > "Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to > manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for > learning." [1] > > This statement seems to me both indisputable and damning; if true, it > strikes to the core of the claim that Sugar is appropriate for learning. > > Even though Bryan has already found some partial solutions to this > problem [2], we should take time to debate the more primitive thesis > that: > > "Narrative is a basic component of much educational material which > Sugar ought to 'natively' recognize, respond to, and manipulate." > > so that we may decide whether this issue should receive a greater share > of our limited design and implementation resources. > > Regards, > > Michael > > [1]: Sugar presently records actions which may occasionally be > decomposed into narrative or situated within an external narrative; > however, Sugar is presently blind to these relationships. > > [2]: Bryan is currently encoding narratives in HTML and is attempting to > use Offline Moodle to make this cheaper to support. I decided to write > this email because I believe that it might well be worth our time to > either give him a hand with his effort or to bake support for similar > use cases directly in to Sugar. bryan's ideas are explained more fully in this article on olpcnews: http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html the comments there are worth reading too it's hard to discuss without having the ideas spelt out "narrative is good" is not really a sufficient basis for a discussion but bryan's article has more detail
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