Hi Folks... Actually, there are at least two other SLOB members who have active experience in the classroom, José Miguel Garcia is a much honored educator in Uruguay. And, Adam Holt has long, ongoing, and extensive classroom experience with the projects, teachers, and students he works with in Haiti. Both of them have a realistic, clear view of what it takes to get teacher buy in and to foster student participation and success with Sugar. Sameer Verma may have similar experience with the projects he has worked with in India and Jamaica and, probably other places as well. Caryl
From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 18:03:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] #Documentation SL Funding Committe To: [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Hi Thanks Caryl, this is all very informative and I'm glad you are here to explain this context :) On 6 July 2016 at 17:18, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: Teacher training and "buy-in" is essential for Sugar/Sugarizer to succeed no matter what platform, language, or country you/we are working in. This is where SugarLabs has been remiss. I am grateful that (and think we are all lucky to have) Adam and Tony participating here and on the SL board, but it seems to me that we do not have many other direct links to existing Sugar user communities. It seems to me that there is the Sugar Labs community, which steers the development of Sugar software, and then there is the IIAB/XSCE/Unleash Kids/OLPC-X "deployment" community, and that in the last 10 years some kind of antagonisms have developed which keep the two communities divided. (What I mean by OLPC-X is that there is no longer a community around OLPC itself, but there are still a few user associations like OLPC-France, OLPC-Canada, OLPC-Australia.) I wonder that perhaps developing teacher training media or other resources needed for "buy-in" will be definitively considered in or out of scope for Sugar Labs during Sameer's Vision Quest... that Sugar Labs could be delineated as being focused on developing Sugar software, and doing outreach to software developers who are parents or school district employees or otherwise interested in making software for kids, including providing hardware with Sugar pre-installed at less than 10 units per order, and relies on other projects to deliver that software to classrooms... or, that Sugar Labs is focused on providing non-profit commercial support for Sugar, and develops user support media as well as consulting services for school districts, including providing hardware with Sugar pre-installed at 100+ units per order. -- Cheers Dave
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