[IAEP] What is the purpose of Sugar and the XO?

[David Van Assche]

There a are a set of courses that should help kid and adults with sugar
here:

www.linux-for-education.org
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Just scroll down and u'll see tge sugar based courses. There is a huge
number of really good illusrtrated courses in Spanish but that woudld mean
me translating them which I just dont have time for. I'm putting them up in
Spanish as and wehn though...

kind regards,
David Van Assche

P.S, There is a sugar taxonommy whichyou can feel free to add to.



On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com>wrote:

> Caryl,
>
> I agree with you on this.
> I think, with Sugar (both with and without the XOs) we have a powerful set
> of tools for both independent learning and cooperative learning.
> Every day, I found myself challenged to help our 5th grade teachers made
> their curricula come alive in brand new ways with these tools.
>
> Gerald
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>> I am seeing more and more folks who want free XOs to teach children "IT
>> skills" and "computer skills". I think we need to somehow re-emphasize the
>> value of the XO as a learning tool for subject matter related to the school
>> curriculum and meta learning.
>>
>> The Sugar software is such an important part of this. All the other
>> features of Sugar and the XO-1, which allow the programs to integrate and
>> and allow project based, collaborative learning, are important as well.
>>
>> There are other low-cost laptops that don't do all the wonderful things
>> the XO does that would work just as well for learning IT or computer skills.
>> If that is all they are interested in, perhaps they should look elsewhere.
>>
>> Caryl (aka Grumpy Grannie)
>>
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