David, in this message with a diff purpose I notice a most interesting line, the one regarding your research.
Let me suggest that you chase learning objects + learning styles + teaching styles. Learning objects, alone, furthers the mistake of the "one size fits all" education, which never will work, for it is contrary to nature itself, where each Creature is an Individual. That is the main reason every single great idea in education - be it sets, Open School, Montessori, etc., has been successful only to the extent it fit to those teachers who were a good "fit", and, just as OLPC itself, fails to scale well, and eventually we descend to the morass of administrator-favored one-size-fits-all with blackboards, paper and notebooks. Once the variation in learning and teaching is recognised, embraced and levered upon, a lot of things will work, among those especially learning objects - an area I've spent some time myself - I thus believe your stuff to be quite useful for my own work, yet mostly useless as long as the OSFA methods are the ones ruling the classroom. Best to you Yama > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am proud to announce that we are promoting Pablo Flores as the new > CEO of Activity Central. > > Pablo has a strong background in all things OLPC and Sugar from his > time at Plan Ceibal, leadership in Ceibal Jam, and most recently > as community architect for Activity Central. > > Pablo and the rest of the Activity Central team will continue the core > AC mission of providing service and support for deployments. > > I will continue my work in the Sugar/OLPC ecosystem by focusing on the > junction point between deployment technical teams and education teams. > My research so far has lead me to the notion of learning objects. > While poorly defined in the education literature, the vocabulary around > learning objects seems to lends itself to the intersection of technical > personal and education personal in early childhood education. > > david > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > _______________________________________________ Lista olpc-Sur > [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > > _______________________________________________ Lista olpc-Sur [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur
