Re: 24 teachers start OLPC training
Ed, I will have to get back to you in a couple days, have to run off to the pilot site. Bipul Gautam on our team or Edith Ackermann of the OLPC Learning Team would be the right person to give the guided tour. On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 00:15 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: I wonder whether there is enough interest to put something together for all the volunteers. I could certainly do with a guided tour of both theory and practice. Can somebody figure out how we can discover Constructionism together on our laptops (with appopriate guidance), and perhaps set up a jabber server for that purpose? If we could make it work, we could perhaps offer it to interested people in education, government, and the general public. Presumably some tailoring to particular audiences would be needed. On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Edward, Papert built on the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky. Co-learning, experiential learning - these ideas were pioneered by Piaget and Vygotsky. David Cavallo and Edith Ackermann talked extensively of Piaget and Vygotsky at the OLPC Learning conference I attended in January. Thanks. My mother majored in Child Development at Chicago, so I got a fair amount of background while growing up, particularly on Piaget and Bruner, but I need a lot more detail now. I am particularly a big fan of Vygotsky as I agree with him that learning is fundamentally a social process and that culture plays a large role in our social interactions, hence learning. All of our materials are in Nepali. I hope to post them in a publicly accessible place later. Right now we are in a crunch because we start the pilot at Bashuki and Bishwamitra very shortly. Can we invite some other volunteers to translate them to English, or can you point to the English sources for the material? Constructionism is a broad term that encompasses ideas from many different theorists and many different elements such as: social cognition co-learning scaffolding Experiential learning The single best resource I have found is this web site: http://www.funderstanding.com/engaging_kids.cfm and especially this page http://www.funderstanding.com/theories.cfm Bipul Gautam wrote a nice, short post about some of Piaget's theories on our blog: http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/200 I'll check them out. Perhaps you would be willing to add them to the OLPC Wiki page on Constructionism? On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 22:38 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: 2008/3/31 Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 teachers from Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools started 4-day long OLPC training organized by OLE Nepal. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193 At the start of the Nepali school year, OLE Nepal will distribute 150 laptops to children in grades two and six at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools. Teachers from both schools are currently in four days of training how to use the laptops in the classroom. Can you tell us what the training materials are and where to access them? Are they in Nepali? Can we get English translations? For example, we have nothing in the Wiki about this: On the morning of the second day Bipul focused on the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky that underpin constructionism. The afternoon of the second day returned to the activities in the XO and how they reflect the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky. In fact, it is the first I have heard of the connection between Piaget and Vygotsky and the XO. Which of their publications are most relevant? Who knows about any of this? The Constructionism page in the Wiki is feeble. OLE Nepal has developed a completely open-source set of learning activities for both grades. Mahabir Pun, OLE Nepal's Director of Networking has set up Internet access for both schools. Excellent. We regularly update our blog with more details http://blog.olenepal.org/ Bryan Berry Systems Engineer, OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: 24 teachers start OLPC training
Hey Edward, Papert built on the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky. Co-learning, experiential learning - these ideas were pioneered by Piaget and Vygotsky. David Cavallo and Edith Ackermann talked extensively of Piaget and Vygotsky at the OLPC Learning conference I attended in January. I am particularly a big fan of Vygotsky as I agree with him that learning is fundamentally a social process and that culture plays a large role in our social interactions, hence learning. All of our materials are in Nepali. I hope to post them in a publicly accessible place later. Right now we are in a crunch because we start the pilot at Bashuki and Bishwamitra very shortly. Constructionism is a broad term that encompasses ideas from many different theorists and many different elements such as: social cognition co-learning scaffolding Experiential learning The single best resource I have found is this web site: http://www.funderstanding.com/engaging_kids.cfm and especially this page http://www.funderstanding.com/theories.cfm Bipul Gautam wrote a nice, short post about some of Piaget's theories on our blog: http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/200 On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 22:38 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: 2008/3/31 Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 teachers from Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools started 4-day long OLPC training organized by OLE Nepal. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193 At the start of the Nepali school year, OLE Nepal will distribute 150 laptops to children in grades two and six at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools. Teachers from both schools are currently in four days of training how to use the laptops in the classroom. Can you tell us what the training materials are and where to access them? Are they in Nepali? Can we get English translations? For example, we have nothing in the Wiki about this: On the morning of the second day Bipul focused on the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky that underpin constructionism. The afternoon of the second day returned to the activities in the XO and how they reflect the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky. In fact, it is the first I have heard of the connection between Piaget and Vygotsky and the XO. Which of their publications are most relevant? Who knows about any of this? The Constructionism page in the Wiki is feeble. OLE Nepal has developed a completely open-source set of learning activities for both grades. Mahabir Pun, OLE Nepal's Director of Networking has set up Internet access for both schools. Excellent. We regularly update our blog with more details http://blog.olenepal.org/ Bryan Berry Systems Engineer, OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: 24 teachers start OLPC training
2008/3/31 Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 teachers from Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools started 4-day long OLPC training organized by OLE Nepal. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193 At the start of the Nepali school year, OLE Nepal will distribute 150 laptops to children in grades two and six at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools. Teachers from both schools are currently in four days of training how to use the laptops in the classroom. Can you tell us what the training materials are and where to access them? Are they in Nepali? Can we get English translations? For example, we have nothing in the Wiki about this: On the morning of the second day Bipul focused on the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky that underpin constructionism. The afternoon of the second day returned to the activities in the XO and how they reflect the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky. In fact, it is the first I have heard of the connection between Piaget and Vygotsky and the XO. Which of their publications are most relevant? Who knows about any of this? The Constructionism page in the Wiki is feeble. OLE Nepal has developed a completely open-source set of learning activities for both grades. Mahabir Pun, OLE Nepal's Director of Networking has set up Internet access for both schools. Excellent. We regularly update our blog with more details http://blog.olenepal.org/ Bryan Berry Systems Engineer, OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ The best way to predict the future is to invent it.--Alan Kay ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
24 teachers start OLPC training
24 teachers from Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools started 4-day long OLPC training organized by OLE Nepal. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193 At the start of the Nepali school year, OLE Nepal will distribute 150 laptops to children in grades two and six at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools. Teachers from both schools are currently in four days of training how to use the laptops in the classroom. OLE Nepal has developed a completely open-source set of learning activities for both grades. Mahabir Pun, OLE Nepal's Director of Networking has set up Internet access for both schools. We regularly update our blog with more details http://blog.olenepal.org/ Bryan Berry Systems Engineer, OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
