[IAEP] Teachers ask programmers / Maestros preguntan a Programadores

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

The Replacing Textbooks program would like to contact countries and states
or provinces within larger countries about the possibility of paid
contracts to get subject-matter and curriculum experts, among others to
create digital textbooks integrating Sugar and other powerful software
into every aspect of the curriculum, including the development of
appropriate teacher-training materials, in the primary international
languages, and in the languages of any country concerned.

In fact, we would like to create an international program in which
countries could share such work and the resulting materials. I have
started to talk with international agencies that could support such a
program, and will be talking with countries when I finish digitizing and
translating the first draft of Turing Award winner Ken Iverson's 1972
textbook, Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment. It is in a 40-year old
dialect of APL, and I am reworking it in J, Iverson's last language before
he died.

On Fri, December 2, 2011 8:23 pm, Sameer Verma wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Iain Brown Douglas
> <iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 05:55 -0200, Carlos Rabassa wrote:
>>
>>> This could open the competition to write applications to every
>>> programmer in the world who has the required knowledge.
>>>
>>>
>>> Teachers with ideas for good educational applications could write them
>>> themselves or find a programmer willing to do it.  The teacher could
>>> select the programmer without restricting the choice to those willing
>>> to work as unpaid volunteers under the rules of SugarLabs.
>>>
>> How can Sugar address this point and its misapprehension that Sugar
>> looks like a closed shop? It was good to see a reply from Bert
>> Freudenberg, that paid contributors are welcome.
>>
>> It would be good to hear it shouted loud that (for example) if a school
>> were to commission someone to produce work suitable for the Sugar
>> Activity Library, both the school and the writer would be credited.
>>
>> Carlos writes eloquently and with nice metaphor about the world in which
>> he works.
>>
>> I think part of the content of his message tries to address the lack of
>> response to his earlier message, Subject - Where may developers meet
>> educators?
>>
>> As a generous community Sugar does well at harnessing individuals who
>> can do some of their best work alone at 3am. How does Sugar go about
>> giving support to service users?
>>
>> One small idea, could Sugar provide teachers with an area to upload and
>> share lesson plans? This is a major chore, and in a subject anywhere
>> near the edge of ones experience, harder still. When a lesson plan has
>> been copied from elsewhere, it does not mean the children will hear it
>> twice!
>>
>
> This is something a bunch of us are working on (cc'ing them). In OLPC
> Jamaica, we started to build a forms-based interface where the lesson
> plans could be uploaded not as Word documents, but as text, etc.
> filled out in forms so that someone else may come by and "clone" an
> existing lesson plan and modify as needed. Unfortunately our main
> driving force behind this is no longer in Jamaica (she moved) so
> things have become a bit slow.
>
> This also came up at the recent OLPC San Francisco Community Summit as
> well. There are a few challenges, but nothing unsurmountable. I agree
> that lesson plans are a major challenge in any school environment.
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
>
>> To Carlos I would say ask again:
>> Where may developers meet educators?
>>
>> The education of an individual is a massive undertaking, it is built
>> with small blocks, like the cat which I too enjoyed, and with other
>> blocks with which it is sometimes difficult to work.
>>
>> Iain Brown Douglas
>> Parent and Grandparent.
>>
>>>
>>> Carlos Rabassa
>>> Volunteer
>>> Plan Ceibal Support Network
>>> Montevideo, Uruguay
>>> www.tiny.cc/AprendoILearn
>>>
>>>
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>
> --
> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Professor, Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://olpcsf.org/
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-- 
Edward Mokurai
(默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر
ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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