Hi SJ, looking forward to see you again. Great, the Wiki Lounge is
certainly one of the trends to follow at the Drumbeat. I did not notice
other wikieducator slots, be happy to join and contribute. I am far from
being capable of making activities, just in my first steps with python, Iĺl
be
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010 8:17:34 am Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi All...
Here is a concise article that summarizes Sugata Mitra's work with the
Granny Cloud. Note he says a 1 to 1 model doesn't work. He uses 4 to 1.
http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2010/07/29/granny-cloud-to-teach-children-via-
To me, this is the main point.
Years ago (at PARC) we decided that in any meaningful world, we needed to help
90% of the learners achieve real fluency (or judge our methods to be not good
enough). Both the 90% and real fluency are crucial (the latter is often
abandoned when the former is held
When I was in Bolivia recently I happened to be present at a rather
high-level meeting where the matter of the literacy rate of Ecuador was
being discussed, and criticism of those critisizing it got criticized -
apparently UNICEF or one other such agency had disputed a 1% gain
claimed by the
Hi All...
A bit of family history to shed light on my opinion on this...
My Irish great-grandmother was unable to read and write when her first children
were born, back in the 1860's (she was born at the start of the Potato Famine).
She signed their birth certificates with an X. Within a
thank you, yep, you right.
On 11/02/2010 04:40 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Yamandu Ploskonkayamap...@gmail.com wrote:
request to understand better what Alan meant by 90% fluency...
Fluency in 90% of the population, not 90% fluency.
You could want to
I didn't say 90% fluency, I said to get 90% of the children to the level of
fluency.
Cheers,
Alan
From: Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com
To: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com
Cc: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com; IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org;
hmm, sure..., sorry What does it mean? 90% of the children get 100%?
Is there a sliding scale / bell curve? what is fluency, anyway?
fluency in what?
On 11/02/2010 05:08 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
I didn't say 90% fluency, I said to get 90% of the children to the
level of fluency.
Cheers,
Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
thank you, yep, you right.
On 11/02/2010 04:40 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Yamandu Ploskonkayamap...@gmail.com
wrote:
request to understand better what Alan meant by 90% fluency...
Fluency in 90% of the population,
interesting... What about nature / nurture?
are we talking about 90% of those who actually can, or 90% of all?
in any case, we hit very different individual learning slopes...
To follow up with the kind of example you use, today's Wall Street
Journal has an article on how even highly
I believe that Alan has used examples like 90% before that one can read to
gain additional insight to his view. A quick search will provide some
resources. Here is one I found:
http://secretgeek.net/camel_kay.asp
Hopefully that helps shed some light.
Zachary C. Clifton
On Nov 2, 2010, at
VERY interesting, Zachary.
it turned out that an unusual teacher was the culprit, thus something
that cannot be scaled...
On really good teachers, and on how maybe that is not something
transferable,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html?pagewanted=all
Lemov and
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