Claudia, I have been thinking about trying to write a grant to host a conference for teachers. The goals would be similar to the programming blitzes earlier on, where the teachers come together and create best practices, lesson plans, tips and techniques, etc.
I think the social piece is critical. We expect the students using Sugar/XOs to be social; the same is true, in my experience, of the teachers. At least the ones I am working with are really looking forward to connecting with other teachers. What do you think? Gerald On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Claudia Urrea <[email protected]>wrote: > I do believe that Ceibal presents a great opportunity to do great things. > It is a great opportunity... I believe we all want to be given the > opportunity to contribute. > > The best way to get people to appropriate technology is to have them use it > in powerful ways. Yes, more documents are needed, but focusing only in XO > and Sugar, and expect students and children to get comfortable as a strategy > to get them to do the good things is not going to happen. > > Teachers more than students need to good examples.. some have to do with > specific activities, and others with concepts that can be understood and > learned by using different activities. Creating examples that are always > part of a practical experience is good... even when introducing a particular > feature of the XO, or an activity. > > Yama.. i like your article in olpcnews! > > Claudia > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:41, Yamandu Ploskonka <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Yesterday I spent way too much time trying to figure out the different >> press >> > articles and opinion pieces in the internet around the delivery of the >> > "ceibalita" # 396.727, the "last" in Uruguay >> > >> > the main thing: Congratulations! >> >> Indeed. >> >> > the main thing: it's not enough >> > >> > It is clear that the LATU team headed by Ing. Brechner has done an >> almost >> > incredible job, and even though there are excellent teachers there >> "giving >> > us lessons" internationally, even though there are highly dedicated >> > volunteers, the use of these machines in the classroom is not a solved >> > matter. >> > Even if the most extreme opinions (both ends) are fruit of political >> > interests, it is getting more and more clear that there is a lot of work >> to >> > be done to make the XOs really a useful feature of the classroom >> > >> > I say we need to focus on what is easy, to gain buy in by the majority >> of >> > teachers >> > >> > when using the XO in class is easier for the teacher than giving class >> > without the XO, we will have won >> >> Then we know how to win. I am proposing a guide for teachers on how to >> help students learn the XO, Sugar, and everything else with a minimum >> of effort and a maximum of results. Then, as Brian Berry has pointed >> out, we will need 10,000 topic modules with lesson plans, for every >> school subject at every age, translated into more than 100 languages. >> I have a plan for that, too, which I will tell you about later. >> >> Let's start with the XO and Sugar. When we can get teachers and >> students comfortable with all of the features of the XO and Sugar in >> general, and with certain essential activities, we will be able to >> turn them loose on the Internet on any topic consisting primarily of >> information. The harder topics are skills such as math, the arts, and >> languages, where it is not enough to know. You must be able to _do_. >> But put that aside, for the moment, along with the learning modules. >> Let us think about what is required to get basic understanding and >> competence on an XO with Sugar. >> >> I have been collecting the principal obstacles, which are listed at >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.og/go/The_Undiscoverable. We need to think about >> the order imposed by dependencies, and put together a sequence of >> lessons covering all of these. I'm ready to get to it, and you are >> welcome to join in. >> >> > I may be wrong, and opinions are welcome >> > >> > meanwhile, my article >> > >> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/last_xo_laptop_olpc_uruguay.html >> >> Thanks. I've started reading it. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin >> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. >> http://www.earthtreasury.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
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