[IAEP] "Grannie" support for children's learning with computers

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Caroline,


Sounds like a great project! 
Take the time to watch all of this TED talk featuring Sugata Mirta.  It is well worth the time!  You will see how the Granny Cloud was used in Newcastle and how children filled the role in other situations.


http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html


And here is a link to an award winning paper he published in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. It deals only with the experiments in India and does does not refer to the project in England where he used the Granny Cloud.


http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet21/mitra.html


Here is an article that summarizes his work with the Granny Cloud:


http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2010/07/29/granny-cloud-to-teach-children-via-the-internet/


Caryl
From: caroline at solutiongrove.com
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:26:54 -0400
To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: [IAEP] "Grannie" support for children's learning with computers

I didn't want to post on the long thread about NN and teachers but I do want to post a query.
My next implementation site will be center on a computer room in a public housing project.  The community is blessed to have many elders living there and a strong community life with adults and children interacting regularly.  The computer room is always staffed with an adult and my observation is that its usually an elder.  The staffer has no idea what the kids are doing on the computer and whether or not its appropriate.  


We will be supplying computers for people's homes and giving bootable USB sticks with open source educational software and classes to both children and adults.


I'd love to run a class for "elders" on how to help children learn with computers even if you don't know how to use one. This would be both for the computer room monitors and for "grandparents" (meaning any older person who has a individual relationship with a child).  


Does anyone have curriculum or suggestions on what to teach that will help these adults joyfully support and guide their children's learning and exploration?
Can anyone point me to the original research that sparked the "Grannie" thread?


ThanksCaroline
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
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