I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense, not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was inspired by the same idea:
"What would happen if children who can’t do math grew up in Mathland, a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P. Also see http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html - Bert - On 12.01.2009, at 06:36, Wade Brainerd wrote: > I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'. The latter seems a bit > like another world, where I think people want to be educated to > succeed in the real one. > > SugarLand might appeal more to children. But then we would also want > to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I don't > necessarily agree with. > > Best, > Wade > > On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: >> my apologies ;) >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> Playground : Where kids learn and play >> >> or >> >> SugarLand: where kids learn and play >> >> or >> >> Sugar: Where kids learn and play >> >> w/ transpositions of learn and play >> >> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus >>> only >>> including geeks :p >>> >>> [adding iaep and marketing to cc] >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 17:54, imm <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Bryan Berry wrote: >>>> >>>>> "Sugar: A Place to Play and Learn" >>>>> >>>>> I have trouble saying this 3x quickly due to the repetition of the >>>>> "Pla" >>>>> sound. It may sound trivial but it does affect our ability to >>>>> repeat it >>>>> often and consistently >>>> >>>> Yes - me too, that's why I thought the "Learn and Play" form flowed >>>> better... I liked the sounds of that first form, but the concept of >>>> the second form. >>>> -- >>>> imm >>>> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
