[IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?

[Cherry Withers]

Someone already put Squeak on an iPhone (iPod Touch more accurately):
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/

Not too far fetched to get Etoys on iPhone soon enough. :-)

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:07 PM, <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:

> > This was posted to mobile-devel-list at gnome.org by Stormy. I figure,
> > while not directly gnome mobile sugar uses alot of the gnome mobile
> > stack. Someone from San Francisco might be interested or able to do a
> > combined sugar and gnome-mobile event.
>
> Its certainly worth considering making Sugar available for mobile phones so
> its worth staying in touch with gnome mobile.
>
> Wayan Vota and others argue that mobile phones are a more appropriate
> educational platform than laptops for developing countries.
> http://edutechdebate.org/mobile-phones-and-computers/
>
> Their high market penetration is a definite plus, the small display and
> limited keyboard a minus. It would be good to see educational activities
> like Etoys and TurtleArt along with Bluetooth or Wifi collaboration and show
> source available to the 100 millions of phones in the developing world.
>
> Thanks Walter for mentioning David Cavallo in a recent post. I have been
> reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_Design which asserts
> that educational reform in developing countries needs to be rooted in the
> existing skills and needs of the local culture. Clearly mobile phones fit
> this criterion.
>
> Tony
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