On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 10.06.2010 19:34, schrieb Walter Bender: >> ==Sugar Digest== >> >> 1. In their humorous treatise on political double-speak, ''Aristotle >> and an Aardvark go to Washington'', Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein >> define 'contextomy' as "a subtle variation on the straw-man argument" >> where you ''yank'' your victim's words out of context. A straw-man >> argument attributes an opponent to a position that in fact they do not >> hold. Contextomy adds the twist that you de-contextualize a quote in >> order to misstate (or overstate) their position. >> >> An example of contextomy is Mark Warschauer's post, ''OLPC: How Not >> to Run a Laptop Program'' >> [http://edutechdebate.org/one-laptop-per-child-impact/olpc-how-not-to-run-a-laptop-program/]. >> The premise of Warschauer's article is that the 'OLPC model' is >> "simply passing out XOs and getting out of children’s way." No >> planning, no training, no teacher engagement... He goes on to say that >> this is an ill-advised model that does not work. In the article itself >> Warchauer never cites evidence that this is in fact the 'OLPC model', >> but in a comment he refers the reader to the OLPC mission statement as >> justification for his straw-man argument. Contextomy. >> >> I am not aware of any OLPC (or Sugar) deployment that in any way >> resembles Warshauer's straw man, in the United States or elsewhere. > > I hate to play devil's advocate here (naaa, not really;-) but one might > argue that based on what little we know about OLPC in Peru, arguably the > 2nd largest OLPC / Sugar project at the moment, this ("simply passing > out XOs and getting out of children’s way.") is pretty much exactly what > seems to be happening.
Not sure who "we" is or where "we" is getting their data. Everything I know about what is going in Peru suggests otherwise. I worked with the M of Ed to create a week-loing teacher-training workshop long before a single child ever got a laptop. They have a network of regional support centers. They have a rich collection of materials for teachers. See [1] and [2] as evidence to the contrary. [1] comes from the ministry; [2] from a teacher. > >> 2. Carolyn Meeks and I submitted the final report for the Gardner >> Pilot Academy Sugar-on-a-Stick pilot. I was lazy and didn't include the URL in the email... just in my blog and the wiki. See [3]. > > Is this report publicly available anywhere? > > Cheers, > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > co-editor, www.olpcnews.com > e-mail: [email protected] > [1] http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/olpc/OLPC_Home.html [2] http://www.scribd.com/doc/20189623/The-XO-Laptop-in-the-Classroom [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy/Final_report -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
