[IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Hi Edward,
>
> Ah thank you for asking, I think a translation is in order.  Lesson plans on
> the web are just text documents.  There are unknown gazzilions of Lesson
> Plans on the web.  Here are some examples of Service Learning Lesson Plans
> thanks to Google.
>
> http://bostonteachnet.org/chang_feeney_wong/sigproj.htm
> http://bostonteachnet.org/bwm/mccullough/sigproj.htm
> http://www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit242/lesson1.html
> http://www.fsu.edu/~flserve/sl/standards.html  - At the bottom of the page
> you can download lesson plans.

None of these lesson plans take advantage of our software. We know
that what we can do now is radically different from what we could do
before.

It's like the difference between filming a play with one unmoving
camera, vs. the techniques of pan, zoom, dolly, cuts, wipes, fades,
dissolves, special effects, and much more, except more so.

> It still a lot to get done in time for  G1G1 but it does not require any new
> software to be written.

I will be giving a talk on the possibilities for new textbooks at
XOcamp in three weeks. I'll see about sharing a video. In the mean
time, see Alan Kay's video from the Country Workshop at OLPC.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Presentations/May_2008_Country_Workshop

5:00 	Beyond the Printing Press: Computers as Learning Environments
for All Children

Alan Kay, President, Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc.

http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Video/2008-05-20/13-Beyond-Printing%20(medium).ogg

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not clear on what software we could have ready in time, beyond the
>> last release. G1G1 starts in three weeks.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
>> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Caroline Meeks
>> > <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm going to do a bit of preaching to the choir but I thought it was
>> >> worth
>> >> sharing my thoughts to see if everyone is on the same page and to see
>> >> if
>> >> anyone has anything to add.
>> >>
>> >> Why Now?
>> >>
>> >> If we can get some activities ready in time for G1G1 then we could end
>> >> up
>> >> with some synergy on the marketing.  Teachers could use it as a way to
>> >> encourage students to ask for it for Christmas, and our tester
>> >> recruiting
>> >> program could get a bunch of publicity.
>> >>
>> >> Why is it important?
>> >>
>> >> -For Sugar
>> >>
>> >> Growth in adoption will mean more activities which means we need more
>> >> testing.
>> >> Teachers are a key factor in getting adopted in the developed world,
>> >> the
>> >> success of Moodle shows us that, this is a way to reach teachers
>> >> We can explicitly put in the curriculum a suggestion for students to
>> >> show
>> >> Sugar to one of their old elementary school teachers.
>> >> Some high school kids are very good programmers, this could potentially
>> >> be
>> >> an avenue for programmer recruitment.
>> >> Some geeky high school kids have parents who are very good programmers,
>> >> this
>> >> could be another avenue for programmer recruitment
>> >> In developing the curriculum we will hopefully find other high quality
>> >> curriculum that we can reuse.  This is an opportunity to find partners
>> >> that
>> >> can help in marketing and future curriculum development.
>> >>
>> >> -For Students
>> >>
>> >> There is a tremendous amount that can be learned and an excellent
>> >> opportunity for authentic, situated, project based learning. Hardware
>> >> and
>> >> Software, Education Theory, Understanding the differences in education
>> >> world
>> >> wide
>> >> It is an opportunity to bridge the gender gap that currently exists in
>> >> the
>> >> US. More girls tend to be interested in Community Service and more boys
>> >> in
>> >> computers.
>> >>
>> >> Anything to add/subtract?
>> >
>> > I don't have much to add, but I think it's a fantastic idea. Sugar is
>> > not getting enough testing, because, unlike other open source
>> > projects, his developer and user base are different (and mostly
>> > disconnected). Also testing is often a good way to make your first
>> > steps inside a project and then contribute to the development.
>> >
>> > Marco
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> >
>>
>>
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Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
http://www.obamapedia.org/page/polls
Moving into landslide territory!
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children

Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai
Give One, Get One, from Nov. 17
http://www.amazon.com/xo
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Giving/International