Edward Cherlin wrote: > This, you see, is how discovery is supposed to work. You can't turn > this experience into a canned lesson. We have to think about how to > invite people into the experience effectively, since explaining it > just doesn't work for those of less than astounding powers of > imagination. > > We need a way to capture such experiences and make them vicariously > available to others as part of that invitation. Would you Wiki this, > Sameer? >
I'll give it a shot. Do you have an existing document or should I start afresh? > I started writing a little guide to Discovering the XO, but had to put > it on hold. It was a bit odd writing a document to specifically not > explain how to use the product, but definitely educational. How would > you go about it? (All of you, not just Sameer) > > I have two ways of doing this. There was a time when I did not know Linux or Unix. I try to go back to that time and fast forward to the moments when I struggled with /bin /etc/ var and so on. The other method, which I think is a lot more helpful is that I show the XO to children 5 and up every chance I get and observe them without much intervention. It is amazing what one can glean from such observations. It works really well. I believe it worked for Piaget as well :-) Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > On Feb 11, 2008 1:07 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I must admit it took me some time to get used to the concept of a >> journal that captures all that you do, and saves it, along with >> versioning, date and time. Additionally, the ability to add tags and >> description is great. >> >> What I didn't expect is that I would get used to it so much that I would >> miss it in my regular work environment! I find my file manager and >> backup utilities to be primitive. With file managers, you have to go >> digging into drives, folders, and then look at time stamps. BTW, I use >> Ubuntu Gutsy as my primary interface. I boot into Windows XP about once >> a month (old habits...). Now that I've experienced the journal, I want >> it on my machine!!! >> >> I can [now] see how a person (child or otherwise) who has never used a >> file manager would not need one and would take to the journal. Of >> course, those of us who like it under the hood would want their /usr >> /var /etc to be there, but if you don't know about it, why bother? >> >> I wonder if anyone else has had this experience, or is my wine tainted :-) >> >> Sameer >> >> -- >> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Information Systems >> San Francisco State University >> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Olpc-open mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
