On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:57:45AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> There are still a few loose ends to tie with the Turtle Art >>> modification. I am trying to make it into somewhat of a case study >>> that can be hopefully a catalyst not just to rote imitation but also >>> to some deductive or model-based thinking about thinking. Also, the >>> exercise has raised a few questions for me about our process that I >>> hope to address/document. >>> >>> I realize that teachers don't have time to be developers, but I aspire >>> that everyone will move towards all kinds of appropriation. >> >> I'm looking forward to the day when our graduates start to take over >> the teachers' colleges, and all of the teachers who have been >> programming since third grade or so get together to share the >> development of new interactive textbooks based on software that is >> built for children to modify. >> >>> Alas, I wish that OLPC had included the chapter on Modifying Sugar in >>> their Help activity... >> >> Second the motion. > > Walter, Luis, > > I just checked with Seth who mentioned to me that a 'Modifying Sugar' > exists but that it has been excluded from Help to date because it seemed > immature in comparison to other chapters. Fortunately, we have an > activity updater! Therefore, if folks on this list can get that chapter > into shape then I can easily imagine including it in a future version of > Help which might be downloaded by every user of 8.2.0 who manages to > find fast network access. > > Regards, > > Michael >
> it seemed immature OK. Let's work to make it better so that it is so great that there is no question of including it in the next release!! -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep