On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:44:11AM -0700, Stanley Sokolow wrote: > Personally, I feel it is a mistake for the OLPC project to continue with the > concept of the Sugar platform as its exclusive model for an educational > computer. The Sugar applications (activities) could just as well be run > from the Ubuntu desktop. Then students would actually be learning in an > environment that can take them into the real-world that grown-ups occupy on > computers, when they are ready to go beyond the Sugar applications.
Remember, part of the point of Sugar is that the "real-world" UIs will become more Sugar-like as they adapt to the way (designers think) people think about using computers: http://lwn.net/Articles/334911/ The point of sugar is far from "preparing kids for the real world". It's probably more about "helping kids learn [about many more things than computers]". But this is quite well-trodden ground, so I don't think we're going to contribute much new. > Stan Sokolow Martin
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