On 27 Feb 2009, at 20:57, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Today I visited a computer lab at a school in Boston where 3-5 year > olds (the PreK class) were using the computers in the computer lab.
Nice feedback. Just wanted to raise the 'know your audience' scope, isn't 3-5yrs out of previous Sugar design scope? I though it was more like 6-16yrs? Saying that, I'd be very happy to be able to lower the age barrier to entry, but it gets tough not to loose other features (i.e I say 3-5yrs would be a non-multitasking user interface, one activity at a time, no switching, just stopping, and back to home). --Gary > The teacher tried to get them to use Kidspirations to look at and > stamp bugs but they rebelled. All they wanted to do was use KidPix. > > We need a paint program that is as cool as KidPix or we will suffer > the same fate. They will turn off Sugar and go back to Windows to > use KidPix! > > In Kidpix the students learned that they need to use the mouse and > not the keyboard. By the time I left all students had managed to > learn to use the mouse to make something on the screen. I saw some > kids make the connection that they had done something with the mouse > and it had appeared on the screen. Some were painting with colors, > others were stamping with images. Some kids had learned how to > erase the screen and start over. > > Clearly learning was going on. I thought to myself, "what would > take this lesson to the next level for these students". I think, > based on the interactions the teachers were having as they spent > individual time with the students, that it would be valuable to > these students to begin to tell stories about their pictures. It > would be cool if the kids could record a voice note when they saved > a picture in the journal. This could help the teachers move them > towards telling stories about thier pictures. I think that would in > turn motivate them to want to control what they did with the picture > more. > > Our goal with the journal is to get kids to reflect on thier work. > For many of the students in the age range we serve typing that > reflection is going to be a challenge and we might well get more > thoughtful reflection if they could speak it. > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
