[IAEP] Installing Activities question

2010-09-08 Thread Frederick Grose 
From a new question on the wiki:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_help#on_Sugar_activities

I downloaded Sugar on a Stick and ran it on my computer -- however, the
project I'm working with is about the Calculate activity. I found how to
download the Calculate activity from your Activities page, however I don't
know how to take that downloaded activity and incorporate it into my USB
device/environment. So my question is: How can I take a downloaded activity
and use it with Sugar on a Stick?

There are a number of ways to install new Activities into Sugar:

   1. Using the Browse Activity in Sugar, navigate to the *Sugar Activity
   Library* (http://activities.sugarlabs.org), find the Activity you want
   and click the 'Download Now' button. In Sugar, you should see an alert that
   counts down the transfer. Once the download is saved, a new alert offers to
   show the new Activity in your Journal. Clicking the 'Show in Journal' button
   will take you to a detail view of the ActivityName.xo entry. Clicking the
   icon at the top left of this view will launch the Activity. The Home view
   favorites and Journal will show the new Activity installed.
   2. If the Activity is downloaded to another computer, the downloaded
   activity is contained in the ActivityName.xo file that is saved on the
   computer that did the download. If you have another USB device, copy that
   file to the root folder, /, at the base of your USB device. Then boot
   Sugar on a Stick and go to the Journal. When the second USB device is
   inserted, it should appear in the bottom bar of the Journal. Clicking on the
   USB device icon will show its contents. Drag the ActivityName.xo file to
   the Journal icon at the far left of the bottom bar. Then click on the
   Journal icon and the ActivityName.xo entry will display at the top of the
   Journal. Click the icon for ActivityName and it will launch.
   3. If the downloaded ActivityName.xo file is copied to the SoaS USB
   device, and that device is booted into Sugar, one may use the Terminal
   activity to unzip the file into the /home/liveuser/Activities folder using
   these commands: cd /home/liveuser/Activities/ (The /home/liveuser/ path
   may be substituted with /home/olpc/ on an XO.) unzip
   /mnt/live/ActivityName.xo (The /mnt/live/path-to-.xo may be substituted
   with an accessible ActivityName.xo path.) The Activity will appear in
   the Home view favorites, and after it has been launched, it will appear in
   the Journa


This is a good candidate for the FAQ,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/FAQ#Activities, once the community
has had a chance to refine the text.
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Sugata Mitra: The child-driven Education

2010-09-08 Thread Frederick Grose 
Newly posted in September 2010:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugata Mitra: The child-driven Education

2010-09-08 Thread Walter Bender 
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Newly posted in September 2010:
 http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
 ___
 IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
 IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
 http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep


What a depressing talk... Did anyone see any learning happening?

-walter


-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugata Mitra: The child-driven Education

2010-09-08 Thread forster 
 What a depressing talk... Did anyone see any learning happening?
 -walter

Walter

I presume you refer to the student achievements being at the lower end of 
Bloom's Taxonomy: internet search and data retrieval with little evidence of 
having thought about the information on the way?

In one test, which may have been a test of simple recall, the students were 
tested 2 months later. The test results were just as high. That implies that 
the students did process the information more deeply, simple recall I would 
expect to decay faster.

The experiments did show that young children can achieve a lot with interesting 
challenges and suitable tools. It also showed that learning is socially 
mediated, (as in Vygotsky).

What I would like to see is more depth. Given that children learn spontaneously 
with interesting challenges and good tools and that they learn socially, which 
were already established facts, what can be done to to build on this?

Tony 
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep