I am associated with Brihaspati Vidyasadan school. At the beginning of this academic year, we setup a computer lab dedicated to students from Nursery to class 2. We decided to go with edubuntu 9.10, (just the default install). Its been 11/2 months now since these students have been using these machines. Yesterday I went to check up on them on how they were faring along. I just wanted to share the experiences. The students, when I went there, were busy using gcompris. Most of them seemed to have mastered gcompris, which was kinda cool. Some of them were using tuxType and tuxMath. There was one very busy with tuxPaint. And one was using my favorite program, potato guy. The students had already got the hang of starting up the machines, logging in and shutting down the machines. Basically they were able to browse through the environment very well. They could go to the programs they liked and work with them. What I really wanted to find out was how these programs that they were using were helping them in everyday work. That is where the difference comes in. Some of the students have shown remarkable changes in recognition of characters, spelling and drawing. Too early days, but impact is showing up. Few things I plan to do now: Install more softwares including : omnitux, my own eBarnamala and writetype. Also I am thinking of introducing class 2 students to kturtle, scratch or some other visual programming tool. Please give suggestions.
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