[IAEP] Teacher in OLPC-Sur list enchanted to see his idea integrated, into global Sugar update [First approach] (luis ACEVEDO)

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:57:45AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are still a few loose ends to tie with the Turtle Art
>>> modification. I am trying to make it into somewhat of a case study
>>> that can be hopefully a catalyst not just to rote imitation but also
>>> to some deductive or model-based thinking about thinking. Also, the
>>> exercise has raised a few questions for me about our process that I
>>> hope to address/document.
>>>
>>> I realize that teachers don't have time to be developers, but I aspire
>>> that everyone will move towards all kinds of appropriation.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to the day when our graduates start to take over
>> the teachers' colleges, and all of the teachers who have been
>> programming since third grade or so get together to share the
>> development of new interactive textbooks based on software that is
>> built for children to modify.
>>
>>> Alas, I wish that OLPC had included the chapter on Modifying Sugar in
>>> their Help activity...
>>
>> Second the motion.
>
> Walter, Luis,
>
> I just checked with Seth who mentioned to me that a 'Modifying Sugar'
> exists but that it has been excluded from Help to date because it seemed
> immature in comparison to other chapters. Fortunately, we have an
> activity updater! Therefore, if folks on this list can get that chapter
> into shape then I can easily imagine including it in a future version of
> Help which might be downloaded by every user of 8.2.0 who manages to
> find fast network access.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>

> it seemed immature

OK. Let's work to make it better so that it is so great that there is
no question of including it in the next release!!

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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