Hello Teemu, I agree completely that journals should be by default open. That's a natural way for a group to share, and it has the potential to be really inspiring.
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Teemu Leinonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.12.2010, at 22.06, Sascha Silbe wrote: >>> >>> Actually it would be great if all the Journals on XO could be (by >>> default) open for reading (and commenting) by everyone in the learning >>> community / local, near by XO users. >> >> That would be the exact opposite of great Ouch :-) Well, it sounds great to me. This could be implemented as a preference, in a way that it could be set for a whole class or deployment. It's fine to have religion, as long as we are welcoming to those with other views. If Teemu goes off and sets up a default-gregarious network where everyone expects to be sharing all the time, the users should not have to expend extra effort to do so. Teemu writes: > The open journals with commenting would provide student a > better changes to reach their zone of proximal development > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development). Without > visibility of the activities with the Sugar, teachers (or who ever is more > skillful / knowledgeable) can not help their pupils. Also, if the pupils can > not follow the work of more advantaged pupils they will loose a great > opportunity to learn. I like this point. It is easy to say "noone wants to see the series of activities I launched at what times, from my Journal history" but that is often not true, especially when one is learning how someone else works. The same argument gets made re: collaborative document production, but groups are more efficient (and learn different sorts of skills) with nuanced change-tracking, a wiki, or a character-tracking etherpad instance than with a crude iteration over rough/final drafts. > Thank you for the links. I find the "choosing license" quite silly idea in > the context of school learning, but that is another story. :-) (-: SJ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
