[IAEP] changes in outlook with Sugar (was Re: Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW)

[Caroline Meeks]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 13:49, Alan Kay<alan.nemo at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > But, if I were trying to make things happen with IAEP, I would try to do
> > just a few main things, and one of them would be to make a
> > program/user-interface which could do a great job of teaching a child to
> > read and write their native language without requiring any more from the
> > adults around them than a little encouragement. Part of the desired
> changes
> > in outlook could be made part of the stories and other materials that the
> > kid would encounter along the way (and part of the big change in outlook
> > that we are a part of is fluent reading of non-story materials in general
> > and about outlook changing ideas in particular).
>
> Do you have already any vision about how to make that happen? I have
> seen lately several people interested in working on better tools for
> reading, may be a very interesting opportunity.
>

The Teachermate materials might be a starting point. Tomeu, do you have any
clarity about how much content they are offering to us and what the license
agreement would be?

Today we discussed this product in one of my classes as an excellent example
of Universal Design for Learning principals.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/index.htm

The videos might give some ideas for Sugar Activities that could empower
teachers to create similar materials and share them.

Caroline

>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Alan
> > ________________________________
> > From: K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com>
> > To: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:12:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and
> > "Mastering" Educational SW
> >
> > On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote:
> >>Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like
> to
> >>say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research
> >>funding. But in the business case, this is actually a form of
> dissembling,
> >>since an enormous percentage of all the GNP (and in fact GWP) comes
> >> directly
> >>as return from research.
> > The top 10% of learners don't need school. The bottom 10% need more than
> a
> > school. For the middle 80%, learning in school should be demonstrably
> better
> > than that out of school. A school is relevant only if it can detect and
> weed
> > out contexts that hinder learning (or have nothing to do with learning)
> as
> > quickly as possible. Otherwise people will vote with their feet.
> >
> > In one of our local public school parents meet, a poor farmer challenged,
> > "Why
> > should I retain my kid in this school? Can you show me one student who
> > studied
> > here and became somebody in life? In the field, I can teach him to raise
> at
> > least one crop a year". For him, there was lot more of physics in the
> farm
> > than in school textbooks.
> >
> > Subbu
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
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