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

[Caroline Meeks]

I'm also in the process of putting together material for teacher
professional development.  I am currently working on a presentation about
it: http://prezi.com/v9vakzbv_c9y/  Note this is a work in progress,
comments welcome!

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> There a are a set of courses that should help kid and adults with sugar
> here:
>
> www.linux-for-education.org
> d
> 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)
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>>> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Swift<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jonathan_swift.html> - "May you live every day of your life."
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>



-- 
Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/attachments/20091114/aaae7f22/attachment.htm