<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 13:49, Alan Kay<<a href="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com">alan.nemo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> [snip]<br> ><br> > But, if I were trying to make things happen with IAEP, I would try to do<br> > just a few main things, and one of them would be to make a<br> > program/user-interface which could do a great job of teaching a child to<br> > read and write their native language without requiring any more from the<br> > adults around them than a little encouragement. Part of the desired changes<br> > in outlook could be made part of the stories and other materials that the<br> > kid would encounter along the way (and part of the big change in outlook<br> > that we are a part of is fluent reading of non-story materials in general<br> > and about outlook changing ideas in particular).<br> <br> Do you have already any vision about how to make that happen? I have<br> seen lately several people interested in working on better tools for<br> reading, may be a very interesting opportunity.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Teachermate materials might be a starting point. Tomeu, do you have any clarity about how much content they are offering to us and what the license agreement would be?</div> <div><br></div><div>Today we discussed this product in one of my classes as an excellent example of Universal Design for Learning principals.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/index.htm">http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/index.htm</a></div> <div><br></div><div>The videos might give some ideas for Sugar Activities that could empower teachers to create similar materials and share them.</div><div><br></div><div>Caroline </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Tomeu<br> <br> > Best wishes,<br> ><br> > Alan<br> > ________________________________<br> > From: K. K. Subramaniam <<a href="mailto:subbukk@gmail.com">subbukk@gmail.com</a>><br> > To: Alan Kay <<a href="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com">alan.nemo@yahoo.com</a>><br> > Cc: <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:12:59 PM<br> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and<br> > "Mastering" Educational SW<br> ><br> > On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote:<br> >>Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like to<br> >>say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research<br> >>funding. But in the business case, this is actually a form of dissembling,<br> >>since an enormous percentage of all the GNP (and in fact GWP) comes<br> >> directly<br> >>as return from research.<br> > The top 10% of learners don't need school. The bottom 10% need more than a<br> > school. For the middle 80%, learning in school should be demonstrably better<br> > than that out of school. A school is relevant only if it can detect and weed<br> > out contexts that hinder learning (or have nothing to do with learning) as<br> > quickly as possible. Otherwise people will vote with their feet.<br> ><br> > In one of our local public school parents meet, a poor farmer challenged,<br> > "Why<br> > should I retain my kid in this school? Can you show me one student who<br> > studied<br> > here and became somebody in life? In the field, I can teach him to raise at<br> > least one crop a year". For him, there was lot more of physics in the farm<br> > than in school textbooks.<br> ><br> > Subbu<br> ><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> ><br> _______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>