[IAEP] Sugar is an X that happens to have an entire learning platform and operating system included.

[Caroline Meeks]

This thread is inspired from another where James Simmons said:

"I wonder how the OLPC project might have changed if it was sold as an
ebook reader that could also run educational software.  It brings to
mind an old Woody Allen joke, where he claimed to own a sword that
turned into a cane so the muggers would feel sorry for him."

and also from always losing every short presentation format contest we
enter.

Sugar is not a 3 minute idea.  This is not a bad thing improving learning
for kids world wide is complex, to achieve our mission we will need all of
complexity and more.

But it also makes sense to think about the easy to grasp benefits.  I think
one important criteria is it needs to be something that a group of people
already knows they want.  Anyone want to brainstorm with me? For Sugar on a
Stick I've got:


   - eBook reader that remembers the page and notes  and as the child moves
   from the computer to computer in classrooms, after-school and at home.
   - ePortfolio solution for K-5th grade students
   - Lets kid use Scratch even when the school won't let them install new
   software.


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Caroline Meeks
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