[Sugar-devel] once in a generation something happens

[Sumit Srivastava]

there was a time when everything changed in education: writing on clay
tablets was invented in ancient mesopotamia (3rd millennium bce).

then we had another major change: the printing press was invented.

it made access to knowledge available to the masses at little cost.

a few centuries later, we invented personal computers.
whoa! alan kay, seymour papert, cynthia solomon, and many more thought
there was something big there. this was the birth of the idea of using
personal computers for learning.

a few decades later, internet happened.

walter, claudia, and a lot of other people helped the people of the world
use the internet to get people to learn using the internet and computers.

there's something new happening in artificial intelligence. we have a new
thing that can create new possibilities.

austen allred, founder of a prominent ed tech startup and someone
i interviewed a few years ago, says that schooling is changing and we might
see more ai than teachers to help students learn. [1] [2]

this could be something we could build on top of. we don't have the
bandwidth, true. but if we don't go out of our way to build something that
could be pivotal in the next leap of technology, we might miss out on the
chance to be the greatest educational organisation of the next decade.

i see a future where something that was built and open sourced at sugar
labs goes on to be the go-to thing for students and teachers around the
world, used by billions of students around the world every month.

for that i ask for 20% of your time out of whatever you are already doing
at sugar labs.

[1] https://x.com/Austen/status/1930865224292168167
[2] https://2hourlearning.com/

thanks,
sumit
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