A very simplified spreadsheet on the OLPC machine would be nothing more than a teacher's blackboard that is interactive. E.g. the child can experiment/interact with the blackboard. Traditionally, numbers are written on the board; solutions are given. The ability of the student to manipulate these would be a great advance. The bridge from rote learning to experimental learning.
This is something we are thinking about at UCSD. On 5/31/07, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael, > There are no plans for an official OLPC spreadsheet activity. At > least, none that I have heard of (or could imagine). Largely because 6 > year olds shouldn't have access to it. Can you explain why they shouldn't? Spreadsheet is a good way to experiment numbers and (usually) provides simple rules to manipulate them. Thinking about patterns and relationships, it can be a pretty good tool. A built-in graph feature would be a plus, but it is also good way to make them "draw" a graph by usign each cells as pixels. Making a graph feature should give them better understanding what a graph is. (For the making graph part, many kind of graphs can be done in Etoys (and TurtleArt) by using the pen feature. Etoys has a "holder" object that can hold a sequence of numbers as text, so you can do very rudimentary spread sheet like thing by yourself...) -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
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