[IAEP] Granny Cloud

[Alan Kay]

To me, this is the main point.

Years ago (at PARC) we decided that in any meaningful world, we needed to help 
90% of the learners achieve real fluency (or judge our methods to be not good 
enough). Both the "90%" and "real fluency" are crucial (the latter is often 
abandoned when the former is held to be important).

Cheers,

Alan




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From: K. K. Subramaniam <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com>
To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 7:45:47 AM
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Granny Cloud

On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010 8:17:34 am Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi All...
> Here is a concise article that summarizes Sugata Mitra's work with the
> "Granny Cloud."  Note he says a 1 to 1 model doesn't work. He uses 4 to 1.
> http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2010/07/29/granny-cloud-to-teach-children-via-
> the-internet/
I would be wary of reaching any specific conclusion from such experiments. This 
is not to discourage new experiments but to highlight the fact the need of the 
hours are interventions that ensures that the number of students who are *not 
learning* should provably *decrease* during a three year window.

When we throw technology X or method Y at the education problem and make the 
top two quartiles learn better but leave the bottom quartile out cold, then 
such a tech/method is a nice but unimportant development for tacking education 
issues we face today.

Subbu
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