I'm not sure why researching on kids in a foreign country is a good thing. One of the criticisms of OLPC is that it's research on other populations.
And it could keep some people/ countries from adopting XOs What ever happened to the Africa summer deployments? I never got much information back about it. The ClassActs book sprint didn't include it... Teacherless is interesting as self directed is pretty much constructionist, no? ( I'm not an education theorist, btw) --- Please excuse the typing, very small keyboard... On Oct 31, 2012, at 22:08, Mike Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Some other tidbits from my notes: > > 1) The Motorola Xoom WiFi laptop was passed around during the talk and I made > some photos of the app drawer screens: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157631821883809/with/8109891926/ > > 2) The use of the impressive Funf framework from the MIT Media Lab was > described where software probes were activated in the Android operating > system to collect sensor and system data. > > http://funf.org/ > > 3) The work of Dr. Maryanne Wolf of Harvard was mentioned many times. I have > bookmarked her comprehensive lecture on YouTube. > > The Science of the Reading Brain > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ephYMS16Q&feature=g-crec-f > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ySESQ5Oc4&feature=g-crec-f > > Mike > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[email protected]> wrote: > From a research standpoint, this decision by the Ethiopian gov is great! > Doing this in English avoids all sort of "noise" from family, etc., who might > "help" outside of the research. > In the back of my brain I recall someone doing some research here using > Klingon, for this very reason. > > The half-full glass is in the Ethiopian kids gaining some English, which > eventually will be required to do as they continue their schooling. I can't > see a similar advantage for Klingon, though :-) > > > On 10/31/2012 08:29 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Actually, C.Scott did post the videos (it is in 2 parts) and the >> accompanying slides on his blog at >> http://cananian.livejournal.com/67703.html >> For anyone who missed it, it is worth the time (60-90 min?) to watch it. >> >> As you will see, it is a "pre-pilot" sort of a "proof of concept" project. >> The children did not learn to >> read, but 55% did show that they were "pre-literate" at the end of a year >> based on getting 12/15 >> correct on a letter recognition test. >> >> One huge obstacle to their learning to read is that, at the request of the >> Ethiopian government, the >> lessons are in English. The children speak only Amharic. >> >> Long ago, when I was taking classes for ESL certification, we were taught >> that children should be >> taught to read in their home language first. The decoding skills transfer if >> it is an alphabetic language >> and probably other alphabets but not completely true for a character based >> language such as Chinese. >> That is probably why the Chinese government invented the phonetic pinyin >> system. >> >> Caryl >> >> BTW... C.Scott and Chris describe the theory and methods behind the project >> and data. It is a very well >> designed study that meets all of the requirements for good academic >> research. >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:04:15 -0700 >> CC: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild? >> >> Here! Here! Cheers for Chris Ball and C. Scott Ananian (a brand-new Daddy) >> who were our "house mates" at Casa Sarandi in Montevideo. >> Two great guys and supporters of Sugar Labs and OLPC in every way. >> >> Caryl >> >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:41:32 -0400 >> > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild? >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 31 2012, Mike Lee wrote: >> > > That experiment did not involve anyone from Sugar Labs or the >> > > community. The article is based on an education panel at EmTech 2012 >> > > that, for some reason, has not been posted as video yet. Check >> > > here: http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/12/ >> > > >> > > But Matt Keller and the OLPC Association team who ran the project went >> > > into great detail in their talks at the OLPC SF Summit over a week >> > > ago. The Livestream on the subject has been archived and is viewable >> > > at the these links: >> > >> > A minor point: I consider myself part of the Sugar Labs community >> > and expect that C. Scott does also; maybe others from the team too. >> > >> > - Chris. >> > -- >> > Chris Ball <[email protected]> <http://printf.net/> >> > One Laptop Per Child >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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!) 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