[IAEP] Sugar Vision

[Tony Anderson]

Yet another try.


Sugar Labs develops and supports Sugar. Sugar is a software system 
inspired by Alan Kay's Dynabook vision of a personal portable computer 
for children.
While originally designed and implemented for the One Laptop per Child 
XO laptop, Sugar is available to anyone (GPLv3) and for any computer 
supporting GNU/Linux or a standards-compliant browser.

Sugar provides a library of programs called activities. Anyone can 
contribute to this library including the children themselves. Sugar 
enables children to use these activities to learn both individually and 
by working with others. Sugar and its activities use icons to minimize 
dependency on text while supporting text in the child's own language. 
Activities offer a simple and consistent interface so skills discovered 
in one activity can be applied in another.

Sugar is designed to promote creation of new work which is saved in a 
single location, the Journal. The Journal provides easy access to 
inexperienced users. It enables users to see what they have created and 
to enrich these creations as their skills mature.

Tony