[IAEP] Sugarizer1° Revisited

[Lionel Laské]

Hi Caryl,

Thanks for your support to Sugarizer.
I remember your Sugarizer Primero idea and as I said to you I'm agree to
help you as possible.

Here is a short description of our Sugarizer deployment this year (I'm CC
Bastien so he could give more information):
- The deployment was in a CM1 class in French so Grade 4 for US.
- The deployment was between February 2017 and July 2017
- We've deployed 25 tablets Lenovo A10-30 tablets with a supplementary
microSD 16Gb card with
- Each tablet has a protection and we later add a headphone and a bluetooth
keyboard for each
- Sugarizer OS - so Sugarizer as an Android launcher - v0.8 was deployed on
all tablets, we've also included 82 Android activities. Most famous are:
GCompris, ScratchJr and Wikipedia. The list was decided by Sandrine, our
education specialist.
- The school had no internet access, we planned to deploy a Sugarizer
Server on a RaspberryPI with a bunch of content but we didn't had time to
finalize it
- The main work done by the teacher with the tablets was:
   * Mind mapping using the Sugarizer Labyrinth activity
   * Scratch using ScratchJR application
   * E-book creation using BookCreator application
- Sandrine had regular contacts with the teacher during the year. We had
few meetings with her too and we had a meeting with parents at the end of
the year

We're starting these days a new deployment in another school with 10
tablets (same model). AFAK these tablets will not be dedicated to a
specific grade  this time.

Best regards.

       Lionel.




2017-09-24 20:52 GMT+02:00 Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>:

> Hi Walter,
>
>
> Thanks for replying! Yes, we find things a bit hectic here too... we just
> made our semi-annual move from Montana and are in the midst of unpacking
> our stuff.
>
>
> I look forward to seeing what results Lionel gets from his pilot test of
> Sugarizer in a school. Do you know what grade (age) levels he is testing?
>
>
> We can ask Rosamel for some input. As you probably know she is not only
> working in a school but also is teaching prospective teachers in a local
> university! She really knows her stuff!
>
>
> I was hoping she could do a survey for us from some of the most successful
> users of Sugar in the schools she worked with.  Her school, which we
> visited at the EduJam, was very impressive. Some of the others ... not so
> much. Teacher/parent "buy in" is very important! If we want to do that, it
> would be good to do it before they go into their summer vacation.
>
>
> Lionel mentioned someone liking Abecederium. It is a good one for primary
> school, but there may be problems when we try to translate it into other
> languages.
>
>
> I was thinking that, after releasing a Sugarizer1° there could be other
> specialized versions of Sugerizer... eg Sugarizer+-x/ (specially for math)
> SugarizerCompute (with Pippy and other programming Activities), Sugarizer🎵
> (Music) and so forth! There are so many possibilities.
>
>
> I see Sugarizer1° as a "trial balloon" where we could get all the kinks
> out... testing, documentation, translations, marketing, distribution and
> the like. I also have a granddaughter in the first grade and her Daddy has
> his PhD in Cognitive Science and Educational Technology. He is a "hard
> sell" on things like this so, if he likes it, you know it is good!
>
>
> Caryl
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 24, 2017 11:18:20 AM
> *To:* Caryl Bigenho
> *Cc:* Caryl Bigenho; iaep; Adam Holt; Samson Goddy; Shameer Verma; Lionel
> Laske; Laura Vargas; ignacio at sugarlabs.org; Tony Anderson; James Cameron;
> Rosa; José Miguel García; Gonzalo Odiard
> *Subject:* Re: Sugarizer1° Revisited
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks...
>>
>>
>> I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Perhaps you have been too busy
>> and overlooked my email about Sugarizer1°.
>>
> Things have been a bit chaotic of late :P
>
>
>> I am resending it and hoping to get some honest opinions and suggestions,
>> especially from those of you who have been interested in and working with
>> Sugarizer and those of you who are candidates for the Sugar Labs Oversight
>> Board.
>>
>
> I undestand that Lionel is in the midst of his first pilot test of
> Sugarizer in a school, although I don't know any of the specifics. It would
> seem we should consider what he learns from the pilot before executing a
> plan such as you describe. In the meantime, we should be able to gather
> some data from the Ceibal team that is already on the ground in UY and in
> daily contact with teachers and students. Lots we can learn from them.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>>
>> I look forward to a discussion about how we could best make something
>> like this happen to bring the magic of Sugar to children everywhere.
>>
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Caryl Bigenho on behalf of Caryl Bigenho <caryl at laptop.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, September 22, 2017 9:51:32 PM
>> *To:* iaep; Adam Holt; Walter Bender; Samson Goddy; Shameer Verma;
>> Lionel Laske; Laura Vargas; ignacio at sugarlabs.org; Tony Anderson; James
>> Cameron; Rosa; José Miguel García; Gonzalo Odiard
>> *Subject:* Sugarizer1° Revisited
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I think somewhere some of the people of SugarLabs have “lost their way.”
>> When I joined the OLPC support-gang nearly ten years ago and, later, Sugar
>> Labs I was excited by the concept of bringing collaborative,
>> constructionism to children’s learning all over the world. Later, as the
>> XOs were no longer readily available, Lionel’s idea of “Sugar on any
>> device” promised an exciting way that this could still actually happen.
>>
>> *Now, I am seeing an attempt by a few individuals to usurp all this and
>> drive the program to just a few chosen areas. I believe this is wrong! I
>> believe this should be a world-wide movement to improve education of
>> children everywhere! I also believe many of you agree with me.*
>>
>> A couple of summers ago I proposed, via a motion, a project that I felt
>> would help fulfill that original vision of bringing the magic of learning
>> with Sugar to children all over the world. It addressed what have been some
>> of the weaknesses in prior projects… principally not meeting the perceived
>> needs of children, parents and teachers. Without doing that (which was
>> done, masterfully, in Uruguay), Sugar just won’t get used. The prospective
>> users have to want to use it. They have to see it as the powerful
>> educational tool that it is.
>>
>> My proposed project would start small, with a special version of
>> Sugarizer designed just for children in the first 2 or 3 years of school.
>> It would begin with a survey of students and teachers in Uruguay who had
>> used Sugar Activities in the Project Ceibal program. After finding a small
>> number of favorite Activities, say ten to twelve, the first version would
>> be produced in both Spanish and English. It would be called Sugarizer1°, or
>> Sugarizer Primero because it would be designed especially for children in
>> the "primary grades".
>>
>> When the first versions were ready, they would be tested by children,
>> teachers, and parents using all sorts of devices. Surveys to find favorite
>> Activities would be done. Ways to use them with classroom lessons would be
>> found. Ways to enhance learning at home would be found. Fun things to do
>> with Sugar as a family would be found. Documentation of all this would be
>> made universally available online. Versions in other languages would be
>> added at this point. French would be logical then possibly Hindi, Arabic,
>> and Chinese. Other smaller language groups could also be served such as
>> Haitian Creole, Aymara, and the like.
>>
>> For the regular Release Candidate, an energetic “Marketing campaign”
>> would be needed with Sugar Labs volunteers going to all sorts of
>> educational and open source fairs and conferences, presenting at teacher
>> education institutions, and the like. Getting some of the teachers,
>> students, and parents from the beta testing stage to write articles, blogs,
>> and the like about their experiences would help. Some travel expenses might
>> be incurred and some stipends for writers might be appropriate.
>>
>> As you can see in the paragraph above, many of these steps should cost
>> money. For example, a coordinating teacher in Uruguay should be paid to
>> conduct the studies there (logically this would be Rosamel Ramirez).
>> Possibly educators who work for us as documentation writers should be paid.
>> Etc. Etc. Etc.
>>
>> This proposal needs lots of work. It did 2 summers ago and it still does.
>> If others tell me they also feel that *the Magic of Sugar should be for
>> children everywhere*, I’ll proceed to produce a good formal motion to
>> the board. If there is no interest, I won’t waste any more time on it
>> (planning and writing this would take many hours of thought, research, and
>> discussion with other Sugar Labs members).
>>
>> What do you all think???
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>> P.S. the logo for Sugarizer1° would still be the cute little XO man! He
>> is recognized by people all over the world and thus has lots of value as a
>> marketing tool. *It would be foolish to replace him with anything else.*
>>
>
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>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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