On Wed, June 15, 2011 2:40 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote: > As a new independent learner, there is no question that it is > difficult to "learn Sugar" but why would someone want to? I want to > because OLPC is on the right track toward the education that should > have been researched, implemented and supported for the last 20 years.
At least 50. The great innovators and experimenters in computer education worked in the late 1950s and the 1960s. I include Omar Khayyam [sic] Moore, Ken Iverson, Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Seymour Papert, and the rest. Everything since is commentary, and waiting for Moore's Law to catch up. > What is amazing is that those empowered to provide education to > millions of the world's most needed children actually get this. Some of us, anyway, ^_^ although the idea is definitely spreading. > It is about priorities, passions and limited resources. It is about doing something as soon as possible, not as soon as convenient. > Most of the > people who have contributed to date have been comfortable with the > technology and wrote documentation for themselves and other > like-minded users, and this has worked well to satisfy the needs of > the primary audience - those implementing whole school XO adoptions. > However, developing training and documentation for other audiences has > not been provided for whatever reason. There is documentation for teachers, and teacher training material, in Spanish and Nepali that I would like to see translated to English and then to dozens of other languages. I have been working on Discovering Discovery at FLOSS Manuals and now in the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks program, on our test server at http://booki.treehouse.su/ FLOSS Manuals is in the process of translating its Sugar and OLPC manuals. We could use more help. > I doubt that this is the first time someone has indicated that they > had a problem learning Sugar. Apparently little if anything has been > done in the past to address these specific concerns. The interest in > the current situation is encouraging. It is never too late to provide > additional information for those who are interested enough to point > out a need that is un-met. There has been a substantial amount of grumbling without providing specifics so that we can either change the software or the documentation, as appropriate. Please send me your issues. > Good start on a dialog to discover what is needed and what can be done > / provided to make it easier for other interested audiences to "learn > Sugar" as they understand it. Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
