[IAEP] The last Sugar XO

[Gerald Ardito]

Claudia,

I have been thinking about trying to write a grant to host a conference for
teachers. The goals would be similar to the programming blitzes earlier on,
where the teachers come together and create best practices, lesson plans,
tips and techniques, etc.

I think the social piece is critical. We expect the students using Sugar/XOs
to be social; the same is true, in my experience, of the teachers. At least
the ones I am working with are really looking forward to connecting with
other teachers.

What do you think?

Gerald

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Claudia Urrea <callaurrea at gmail.com>wrote:

> I do believe that Ceibal presents a great opportunity to do great things.
> It is a great opportunity... I believe we all want to be given the
> opportunity to contribute.
>
> The best way to get people to appropriate technology is to have them use it
> in powerful ways. Yes, more documents are needed, but focusing only in XO
> and Sugar, and expect students and children to get comfortable as a strategy
> to get them to do the good things is not going to happen.
>
> Teachers more than students need to good examples.. some have to do with
> specific activities, and others with concepts that can be understood and
> learned by using different activities. Creating examples that are always
> part of a practical experience is good... even when introducing a particular
> feature of the XO, or an activity.
>
> Yama.. i like your article in olpcnews!
>
> Claudia
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:41, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yesterday I spent way too much time trying to figure out the different
>> press
>> > articles and opinion pieces in the internet around the delivery of the
>> > "ceibalita" # 396.727, the "last" in Uruguay
>> >
>> > the main thing: Congratulations!
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> > the main thing: it's not enough
>> >
>> > It is clear that the LATU team headed by Ing. Brechner has done an
>> almost
>> > incredible job, and even though there are excellent teachers there
>> "giving
>> > us lessons" internationally, even though there are highly dedicated
>> > volunteers, the use of these machines in the classroom is not a solved
>> > matter.
>> > Even if the most extreme opinions (both ends) are fruit of political
>> > interests, it is getting more and more clear that there is a lot of work
>> to
>> > be done to make the XOs really a useful feature of the classroom
>> >
>> > I say we need to focus on what is easy, to gain buy in by the majority
>> of
>> > teachers
>> >
>> > when using the XO in class is easier for the teacher than giving class
>> > without the XO, we will have won
>>
>> Then we know how to win. I am proposing a guide for teachers on how to
>> help students learn the XO, Sugar, and everything else with a minimum
>> of effort and a maximum of results. Then, as Brian Berry has pointed
>> out, we will need 10,000 topic modules with lesson plans, for every
>> school subject at every age, translated into more than 100 languages.
>> I have a plan for that, too, which I will tell you about later.
>>
>> Let's start with the XO and Sugar. When we can get teachers and
>> students comfortable with all of the features of the XO and Sugar in
>> general, and with certain essential activities, we will be able to
>> turn them loose on the Internet on any topic consisting primarily of
>> information. The harder topics are skills such as math, the arts, and
>> languages, where it is not enough to know. You must be able to _do_.
>> But put that aside, for the moment, along with the learning modules.
>> Let us think about what is required to get basic understanding and
>> competence on an XO with Sugar.
>>
>> I have been collecting the principal obstacles, which are listed at
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.og/go/The_Undiscoverable. We need to think about
>> the order imposed by dependencies, and put together a sequence of
>> lessons covering all of these. I'm ready to get to it, and you are
>> welcome to join in.
>>
>> > I may be wrong, and opinions are welcome
>> >
>> > meanwhile, my article
>> >
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/last_xo_laptop_olpc_uruguay.html
>>
>> Thanks. I've started reading it.
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