Hi José! I hope you could join this discussion thread :) I'm curious about your perspective from Uruguay on the following questions :)
Are most Sugar users are using XO laptops? Is most Sugar use is in a school/classroom setting, or by the child in their free time at home? Also, I read in https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Jmgarcia that you wrote > For Sugar you should not be limited to a computer model I'm curious if you know of any user communities that are using Sugar on non-XO computers, and if so, what models they were/are using? :) Cheers Dave On 24 April 2016 at 04:18, <fors...@ozonline.com.au> wrote: > Does anyone disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >> school/classroom setting"? >> > > Hi > > The two largest OLPC deployments, Peru and Uruguay account for 50% of XO > laptops. > > Peru, 60% of use was in school [1] > Uruguay home use > school use [2] > > Uruguay was 100% take home, Peru had a mixed take home policy. > > It is not clear what happened in the remaining 50% of deployments. > > These statistics are 4-6 years old. It is not clear how the usage changes > as XO's have got older. They are presumably perceived to be less valuable. > This could relax take home policies, it probably tends to lower school and > home use. > > So I disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a > school/classroom setting". I think its too close to call. Home and school > use are roughly equal. > > Tony > > > > [1]Frequency: sessions in last week By place % at school > Table 9 Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop > per Child Program , IADB Feb 2012 > > [2]"Children reportedly use the XO's about an 1 to 1.5 hours per day at > home...The XO's are not used as much in schools" > http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/plan_ceibal_a_better_designed.htm > May 2010 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Cheers Dave
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