[sugar] Privately-owned data on XOs?

[Mike Usmar]

I very much agree with this; The perspective here is 1 of a western delivery
of curriculum; where principally the focus is on individualism; where as
constructionist and what the XO is about is in fact the success of us
learning together, where in fact we celebrate plagiarism; how we as a group,
as a community have created "our Learning" and move forward together; this
concept is very familiar for our Maori and Pacific communities here in the
Pacific, and indeed many indigenous communities who live in large families
and close communities

MIKE USMAR


On 24/8/07 7:12 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/24/07, Ivan Krsti? <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> 
>>> Many parts of the system become simpler when anyone can read anything
>>> by default.
>> 
>> Yeah, no. I could be convinced about application/resource files, but
>> user documents are not going to be public by default as long as I
>> have something to say about it.
> 
> Having user documents that are innately private runs counter to the
> principles of an environment designed for sharing.  This is a familiar
> model of ownership and privacy, but not necessarily an appropriate one
> in this case.
> 
> For our purposes the benefits of pervasive sharing outweigh those of
> pervasive secrecy.   What is the educational benefit of making
> documents private?
> 
> We are designing a system to help children collaborate.  We should
> support those who want to make other choices, but should attend first
> to those who share.
> 
> SJ and Michael
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