[IAEP] NYTimes.com: Death Knell for the Lecture: Technology as a Passport to Personalized Education
This page was sent to you by: car...@mac.com. Profesora de Universidad de Stanford ofrece datos sobre resultados de ense~nanza con computadoras, a distancia y lo que opina es el ideal, la combinaci'on de programas interactivos con ense~nanza cl'asica de profesor en el aula con los alumnos. Saludos Carlos Rabassa SCIENCE | December 06, 2011 Essay: Death Knell for the Lecture: Technology as a Passport to Personalized Education By DAPHNE KOLLER Until now, it has been hard to see how to make individualized education affordable. But advances in technology may provide a path to this goal. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/daphne-koller-technology-as-a-passport-to-personalized-education.html?emc=eta1 -- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to h...@nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] turtle help
Hello, I don't understand what the blocks next to forward means in the picture: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/1f/TASpirolateral1.png I mean the blocks with the red minus and the green plus. Thanks. ps: is there a specific list for asking help about Turtle Blocks ? -- roberto ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] turtle help
On 06.12.2011, at 14:56, roberto wrote: Hello, I don't understand what the blocks next to forward means in the picture: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/1f/TASpirolateral1.png I mean the blocks with the red minus and the green plus. It does nothing - it's only used as a connector. Otherwise the blocks would overlap. The plus makes it longer and the minus makes it shorter. So instead of two of these arrow blocks, the author could have used one longer block. ps: is there a specific list for asking help about Turtle Blocks ? I don't think so. - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] turtle help
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: It does nothing - it's only used as a connector. Otherwise the blocks would overlap. The plus makes it longer and the minus makes it shorter. So instead of two of these arrow blocks, the author could have used one longer block. ps: is there a specific list for asking help about Turtle Blocks ? I don't think so. thanks ! - Bert - -- roberto ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] turtle help
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I don't understand what the blocks next to forward means in the picture: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/1f/TASpirolateral1.png I mean the blocks with the red minus and the green plus. Thanks. ps: is there a specific list for asking help about Turtle Blocks ? There is a built-in help. If you click on the ? button (or help toolbar) you get 'hover help' by putting the cursor over any block or button). -walter -- roberto ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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
[IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Congratulations!! --hernan El mar 06 dic 2011 12:19:03 PET, David Farning escribió: 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Felicitaciones Pablo! On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big challenge of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its business providing services for deployments using the Sugar learning platform. I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more info about me, please see my profilehttp://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/aboutand follow me in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a strong focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could work in promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City Sugar workshop and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great work that the whole community systematically does for it, to which I hope AC can contribute even more in this new stage. AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth by supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers, upstreaming code and sharing knowledge. In my vision, these professional services are required to keep the ecosystem healthy and it's our biggest challenge doing this sustainably. I won’t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take some days off before assuming the new position, but I’m very open to receiving by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions, criticisms or ideas, as I want to keep the contact fluid. Stay in touch! Regards, Pablo Flores activitycentral.com On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.comwrote: 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Congrats Pablo!! :-) Christoph On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big challenge of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its business providing services for deployments using the Sugar learning platform. I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more info about me, please see my profilehttp://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/aboutand follow me in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a strong focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could work in promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City Sugar workshop and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great work that the whole community systematically does for it, to which I hope AC can contribute even more in this new stage. AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth by supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers, upstreaming code and sharing knowledge. In my vision, these professional services are required to keep the ecosystem healthy and it's our biggest challenge doing this sustainably. I won’t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take some days off before assuming the new position, but I’m very open to receiving by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions, criticisms or ideas, as I want to keep the contact fluid. Stay in touch! Regards, Pablo Flores activitycentral.com On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2011 11:51 PM, Pablo Flores wrote: Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big challenge of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its business providing services for deployments using the Sugar learning platform. I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more info about me, please see my profile http://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/aboutand follow me in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a strong focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could work in promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City Sugar workshop and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great work that the whole community systematically does for it, to which I hope AC can contribute even more in this new stage. AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth by supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers, upstreaming code and sharing knowledge. In my vision, these professional services are required to keep the ecosystem healthy and it's our biggest challenge doing this sustainably. I won?t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take some days off before assuming the new position, but I?m very open to receiving by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions, criticisms or ideas, as I want to keep the contact fluid. Stay in touch! Regards, Pablo Flores activitycentral.com http://activitycentral.com/ Congrats Pablo!! :-) On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com mailto:dfarn...@activitycentral.com 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org mailto:sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep - -- Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager Activity Central -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO3l8ZAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp98QH/jLzX2QP8YWdG7loi6tOLtES ycA58TQQq0J49LrC0VOLNI2ygWXNlSbn/lcPBF0K7BUOK+a/u8VTbYYBPs/eQNUM sYltHAP7gVwgMEVpO8IkPZORPWzl+Xlx1JYj4qt9vg9yGKNkDcBmRnAZ8ySthVUI OS7Ru8MfmTqSwdNHVIEABlb5WpxQxekADRB9WGr9UBxgKP+GHCyOSrNUY1XqaskE kSZLSbxBDIakgj6nU2vWnD/EHev0Cwej5sFmEUXU49/usOHz6NlN0GwuiU1OqQwq KuXYtY7XT5cAlofhoD6L6/zt2K33T4uNrN/hmIzeU9+K70TQM0rmQMdEIz3USIY= =1Cuv -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2011 11:51 PM, Pablo Flores wrote: Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big challenge of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its business providing services for deployments using the Sugar learning platform. I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more info about me, please see my profile http://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/aboutand follow me in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a strong focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could work in promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City Sugar workshop and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great work that the whole community systematically does for it, to which I hope AC can contribute even more in this new stage. AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth by supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers, upstreaming code and sharing knowledge. In my vision, these professional services are required to keep the ecosystem healthy and it's our biggest challenge doing this sustainably. I won?t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take some days off before assuming the new position, but I?m very open to receiving by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions, criticisms or ideas, as I want to keep the contact fluid. Stay in touch! Regards, Pablo Flores activitycentral.com http://activitycentral.com/ Congrats Pablo!! :-) On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com mailto:dfarn...@activitycentral.com 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org mailto:sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep - -- Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager Activity Central -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO3l8ZAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp98QH/jLzX2QP8YWdG7loi6tOLtES ycA58TQQq0J49LrC0VOLNI2ygWXNlSbn/lcPBF0K7BUOK+a/u8VTbYYBPs/eQNUM sYltHAP7gVwgMEVpO8IkPZORPWzl+Xlx1JYj4qt9vg9yGKNkDcBmRnAZ8ySthVUI OS7Ru8MfmTqSwdNHVIEABlb5WpxQxekADRB9WGr9UBxgKP+GHCyOSrNUY1XqaskE kSZLSbxBDIakgj6nU2vWnD/EHev0Cwej5sFmEUXU49/usOHz6NlN0GwuiU1OqQwq KuXYtY7XT5cAlofhoD6L6/zt2K33T4uNrN/hmIzeU9+K70TQM0rmQMdEIz3USIY= =1Cuv -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel +1 Congratulations to Pablo!. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
/On 06/12/2011 03:19 p.m., David Farning wrote: we are promoting Pablo Flores as the new CEO of Activity Central./ Felicitaciones, Pablo! Paolo Benini Montevideo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Congratulations Pablo, keep up the good work. Gabriel 2011/12/6 David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com: 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 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
On 7 December 2011 06:19, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.comwrote: I am proud to announce that we are promoting Pablo Flores as the new CEO of Activity Central. Congratulations, Pablo; I look forward to seeing where this leads for you, Activity Central, and the flow on to Sugar and OLPC. Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer Cell +64 21 482229 tabi...@tabitha.net.nz http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/ Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Come on (Arriba!; a lo Uruguayo ) and... keep walking :-) On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Saludos, Gustavo.- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Bien por Pablo. Felicitaciones y buena gestión! On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Gustavo Ibarra ibarr...@gmail.com wrote: Come on (Arriba!; a lo Uruguayo ) and... keep walking :-) On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Saludos, Gustavo.- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Winners for Badges in Education contest
Mozilla has chosen winners for the first phase of this year's badge-themed Digital Media Literacy competition. Background: universities, NASA, the US Education Department, and others are offering grants to projects which use online badges to track achievements, independent of traditional education. A couple of the first-round winners that I thought stuck out: 'OurPlayground' from University of Chicago - students post hypotheses and photos of ongoing projects on a beautifully designed website http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2847 'Building Citizen Science' with collaborators from the US, Australia, and India - classes win badges for identifying animal and plant species; get help from real scientists; contribute data to environmental research http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2671 A full list is available here: http://hastac.org/blogs/slgrant/2011/12/06/stage-one-winners-list-badges-lifelong-learning-hastacmacarthur-foundation- Regards, Nick Doiron ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
