There is no argument that a great teacher influences many children in the right direction.
But such an effort to improve teachers is completely orthogonal (i.e. independent) to both Sugar and OLPC. Better teachers are needed whether or not the kids get laptops. > Should OLPC or Sugar Labs consider developing and disseminating, this > teaching style, and a curriculum for training teachers? "The teachers must be trained first" is a line frequently used to delay deploying the laptops. Presenting it with Sugar or OLPC would be a disservice, IMO. Sugar and OLPC have the most to offer in classrooms where the teachers are horrible or missing. Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
