[IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

[Jerry]

I'm not sure why researching on kids in a foreign country is a good thing.

One of the criticisms of OLPC is that it's research on other populations.

And it could keep some people/ countries from adopting XOs

What ever happened to the Africa summer deployments?  I never got much information back about it.  The ClassActs book sprint didn't include it...

Teacherless is interesting as self directed is pretty much constructionist, no? ( I'm not an education theorist, btw)

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On Oct 31, 2012, at 22:08, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some other tidbits from my notes:
> 
> 1) The Motorola Xoom WiFi laptop was passed around during the talk and I made some photos of the app drawer screens:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157631821883809/with/8109891926/
> 
> 2) The use of the impressive Funf framework from the MIT Media Lab was described where software probes were activated in the Android operating system to collect sensor and system data.
> 
> http://funf.org/
> 
> 3) The work of Dr. Maryanne Wolf of Harvard was mentioned many times. I have bookmarked her comprehensive lecture on YouTube.
> 
> The Science of the Reading Brain
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ephYMS16Q&feature=g-crec-f
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ySESQ5Oc4&feature=g-crec-f
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> From a research standpoint, this decision by the Ethiopian gov is great!
> Doing this in English avoids all sort of "noise" from family, etc., who might "help" outside of the research.
> In the back of my brain I recall someone doing some research here using Klingon, for this very reason.
> 
> The half-full glass is in the Ethiopian kids gaining some English, which eventually will be required to do as they continue their schooling. I can't see a similar advantage for Klingon, though :-)
> 
> 
> On 10/31/2012 08:29 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Actually, C.Scott did post the videos (it is in 2 parts) and the accompanying slides on his blog at http://cananian.livejournal.com/67703.html 
>> For anyone who missed it, it is worth the time (60-90 min?) to watch it.
>> 
>> As you will see, it is a "pre-pilot" sort of a "proof of concept" project. The children did not learn to 
>> read, but 55% did show that they were "pre-literate" at the end of a year based on getting 12/15 
>> correct on a letter             recognition test. 
>> 
>> One huge obstacle to their learning to read is that, at the request of the Ethiopian government, the 
>> lessons are in English. The children speak only Amharic. 
>> 
>> Long ago, when I was taking classes for ESL certification, we were taught that children should be 
>> taught to read in their home language first. The decoding skills transfer if it is an alphabetic language 
>> and probably other alphabets but  not completely true for a character based language such as Chinese. 
>> That is probably why the Chinese government invented the phonetic pinyin system.
>> 
>> Caryl
>> 
>> BTW... C.Scott and Chris describe the theory and methods behind the project and data. It is a very well
>> designed study that meets all of the requirements for good academic research. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: cbigenho at hotmail.com
>> To: cjb at laptop.org; curiouslee at gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:04:15 -0700
>> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; yamaplos at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?
>> 
>> Here! Here! Cheers for Chris Ball and C. Scott Ananian (a brand-new Daddy) who were our "house mates" at Casa Sarandi in Montevideo. 
>> Two great guys and supporters of Sugar Labs and OLPC in every way.
>> 
>> Caryl
>> 
>> > From: cjb at laptop.org
>> > To: curiouslee at gmail.com
>> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:41:32 -0400
>> > CC: IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org; yamaplos at gmail.com
>> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > On Wed, Oct 31 2012, Mike Lee wrote:
>> > > That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the
>> > > community. The article is based on an education panel at EmTech 2012
>> > > that, for some reason, has not been posted as video yet. Check
>> > > here: http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/12/
>> > > 
>> > > But Matt Keller and the OLPC Association team who ran the project went
>> > > into great detail in their talks at the OLPC SF Summit over a week
>> > > ago. The Livestream on the subject has been archived and is viewable
>> > > at the these links:
>> > 
>> > A minor point: I consider myself part of the Sugar Labs community
>> > and expect that C. Scott does also; maybe others from the team too.
>> > 
>> > - Chris.
>> > -- 
>> > Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> <http://printf.net/>
>> > One Laptop Per Child
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