<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <div>Hi Folks,</div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Actually, C.Scott did post the videos (it is in 2 parts) and the accompanying slides on his blog at <a href="http://cananian.livejournal.com/67703.html">http://cananian.livejournal.com/67703.html</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">For anyone who missed it, it is worth the time (60-</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">90 min?) to watch it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">As you will see, it is a "pre-pilot" sort of a "proof of concept" project. The children did not learn to </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">read, but 55% did show that they were "pre-literate" at the end of a year based on getting 12/15 </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">correct on a letter recognition test. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">One huge obstacle to their learning to read is that, at the request </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">of the Ethiopian government, the </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">lessons are in English. The children speak only Amharic. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Long ago, when I was taking classes for </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">ESL certification, we were taught that children should be </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">taught to read in their home language </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">first. The decoding skills transfer if it is an alphabetic language </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">and probably other alphabets but </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">not completely true for a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">character based language such as Chinese. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">That is probably why the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Chinese government invented the phonetic pinyin system.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Caryl</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">BTW... C.Scott and Chris describe the theory and methods behind the project and data. It is a very well</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">designed study that meets all of the requirements for good academic research. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: cbigenho@hotmail.com<br>To: cjb@laptop.org; curiouslee@gmail.com<br>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:04:15 -0700<br>CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamaplos@gmail.com<br>Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?<br><br> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"> Here! Here! Cheers for Chris Ball and C. Scott Ananian (a brand-new Daddy) who were our "house mates" at Casa Sarandi in Montevideo. <div>Two great guys and supporters of Sugar Labs and OLPC in every way.</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br><div><div id="ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: cjb@laptop.org<br>> To: curiouslee@gmail.com<br>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:41:32 -0400<br>> CC: IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamaplos@gmail.com<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?<br>> <br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> On Wed, Oct 31 2012, Mike Lee wrote:<br>> > That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the<br>> > community. The article is based on an education panel at EmTech 2012<br>> > that, for some reason, has not been posted as video yet. Check<br>> > here: http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/12/<br>> > <br>> > But Matt Keller and the OLPC Association team who ran the project went<br>> > into great detail in their talks at the OLPC SF Summit over a week<br>> > ago. The Livestream on the subject has been archived and is viewable<br>> > at the these links:<br>> <br>> A minor point: I consider myself part of the Sugar Labs community<br>> and expect that C. Scott does also; maybe others from the team too.<br>> <br>> - Chris.<br>> -- <br>> Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> <http://printf.net/><br>> One Laptop Per Child<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div></div> </div> <br>_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</div></div> </div></body> </html>