[IAEP] Journal prompts (was: Re: [support-gang] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar)

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Am 15.06.2011 18:12, schrieb Walter Bender:
> > All of that said, let me repeat an argument I made regarding the Sugar
> > Journal during the EduJam summit last month: we developed the Journal
> > not because we wanted to be incompatible with the rest of the world
> > but because we wanted to address some pedagogical needs. Specifically,
> > we want the children to have a place to reflect upon their work. The
> > Journal is their portfolio. Reflection requires effort and some
> > developers consider the prompts to write in the Journal as an
> > annoyance. But when I ask those same developers if they think adding a
> > commit message to their commits in git, they immediately understand
> > the value. So some of the annoyance of the Journal is because we have
> > not completely solved the UI issues (the good news is that Simon has
> > some patches landing that fix some of these issues) but some of the
> > annoyance is because we want to make the path of least resistance be
> > one where the children are prompted to be reflective-- to write in
> > their "lab notebooks" about what they are doing and why and to make
> > presentations to their teachers, parents, and fellow students about
> > their work. (The latter is facilitated by the new Portfolio activity.)
> >
> > In any case, concrete feedback and criticism is welcome. Thanks.
>

Not time no to follow this so!! interesting topic, would like to point some
suggestions.


   - To have visible one entrance per Activity -just the last one.


   - To get to the second last entrance of the same Activity, (let s say to
   the last 5) in an "older Journal" or kind of second screen, ( like facebook
   does, or a blog) .  The rest of the thing just accessibles by tags or
   conscious backup in an external media.


   - [OT] Sell and buy pendrives and cards ( I live in uruguay where sd
   cards are not expensive, nevertheless you go to a local shop and they don t
   even know what to sell to a ceibalita and we have around 1,5 laptop per
   person)


   - Let each Activity dialogue with Journal it s own way. It seems clear
   that an activity used for writing or drawing needs 10 times more space in
   Journal than one like Firefox, or any player or game.


   - Make an alternative browsing for elder people that feel uncomfortable
   with the Journal.  In other case Sugar is facing the non understanding that
   makes it look taxative and fortuite.


((I always thought that porfolio was the magic word for understanding
Journal...
It is known in Uruguay as as an "evaluation techinque" - i chose Portfolio
for my final work in "Evaluation of Education" at the 3erd year regular
course of the Uruguayan Professors Institute. I think primary teachers study
exactly the same it is not difficult to find experts on that technique.))


   -  "TÉCNICA DE PORTAFOLIO" is then the translation of the idea to our
   teacher's book and the spanish term was not  mentioned that before.

My opinions:
Kids dont care about keeping everything. The concept is to mind more about
the doing and less about the done. You focus on the process ( nothing that
teachers haven t read before)
The machine is then just a place to interact with Activitys and other kids.
It is not a PC and xo_s are not isolated from grown up or adminstrators
machines or other kind of backup ( internet conection or cards)
Sugar is nice, is strong and extremely simple

(Collaboration is a key issue. Other is the  using the ubuntu teacher' s
laptop as a server of the pupil' s xo_s  )
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