[IAEP] courses.sugarlabs.org coming -- eventually

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
>        We are working on a moodle installation at
>        courses.sugarlabs.org. David
>        Van Assche set it up.

Good.

>        I think it will complement activities.sugarlabs.org well.
>        Activities are
>        developed at activities.sugarlabs.org and stable versions of
>        them are
>        put together w/ lesson plans, relevant reading materials, and
>        related
>        activities at courses.sugarlabs.org

This will be interesting. We know that children learn best in ways
quite different from those imposed in most schools, and in particular
that children with computer assistance can learn almost anything at a
younger age than generally believed. We're going to have to find the
people who know what can be done, and those looking for even better
possibilities, and thrash out the entire curriculum.

>        here is what I have in mind for a sample course:
>
>        Class 2 Maths:

What kind is that?

>        Week 1:
>        Constructionist lesson plan for teacher

What can children discover? What guidance do they need? How do we go
past remembering to understanding, and past understanding to mastery?

>        Etoys activity
>        python activity

Math software activity
Let the children program the topic on the XO in whatever software they like.

>        Reading
>        blah
>        blah
>
>        Week 2:
>        lesson plan
>        Actitivities
>        Readings
>
>        Week 3:
>        etc.
>
>        thanks to Bernie Innocenti for granting us server space for this
>        use. It
>        is great having him here in Kathmandu, because he is just so
>        darn
>        helpful. Now we just have to get him a Nepali girlfriend so that
>        he
>        won't leave :)
>
>        Internally to OLE Nepal, we are considering having our educators
>        Sunil
>        and Kamana spec out a whole course in Moodle, then our
>        developers and
>        community members develop sugar activities for the activities
>        that
>        Kamana and Sunil have envisioned. These internal courses won't
>        be very
>        relevant to the larger OLPC community initially because they
>        will be
>        entirely in Nepali. I will have to bug Sayamindu and Bernie
>        about how to
>        intelligently sync courses.olenepal.org w/ courses.sugarlabs.org
>        (mostly
>        English?).

Indeed.

>        these are just ideas right now. Hope to have something useful
>        working in
>        the next couple months
>
>        --
>        Bryan W. Berry
>        Systems Engineer
>        OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
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