[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] multiple home views

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> 2013/5/2 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views
> >>
> >> How is the teacher going to use the proposed functionality to ensure a
> >> consistent home view on all the XOs? Will he/she go to each XO one by
> >> one and mark the activities appropriately?
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >
> >
> > First, my bias: I don't think that we should be trying to control the
> > classroom through technology. Each classroom will use the tools in a
> manner
> > they choose and we can only give them the best tools we can.
> >
> > Several scenarios:
> >
> > A. The teacher sets the ground rules at the beginning of the year:
> homeview
> > 1 is for the classroom; homeview 2 is for the kid. Asks the kids to all
> sync
> > and then things evolve slowly through the course of the school year.
> Teacher
> > says: please add TuxMath to your homeview 1. Please remove Browse.
>
> I wonder, the deploys that are asking for this have tried a recent
> Sugar with the search capabilities in all views?  I can imagine an
> scenario where the teacher asks the classroom to switch to the list
> view and then search "TuxMath".  Doesn't matter how varied are the
> homes, the list view will be always the same if the kids don't remove
> activities (a thing the teacher can ask for too).
>
> Or do they want to have activity sets per lesson?
>
> --
> .. manuq ..
>

In OZ they have relatively recent Sugar. But think a minute about what you
are asking: OK kids who are struggling with literacy: time to type into the
search bar TuxMath without making any typos. Come on. Search has its place,
but this isn't it. And again, you miss the point that activities are used
together in a project.

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
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