Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bastien
Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com writes: Ask about teaching children to work together, as with collaboration in Sugar, rather than individual achievement alone. How will the government test that? Ask about solving problems that may have no single right answer, and certainly don't have a

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bastien
I have added Caroline's and Maria's references to this page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Education_Bibliographies * Boaler, J. (2002). Experiencing School Mathematics : Traditional and Reform Approaches To Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning, Revised and Expanded

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Ian Thomson
Hi Bastien, A good way to measure the skills needed in this rapidly changing world is to look into Information Literacy Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_literacy ) references the American Library Association's description which is fairly good The American Library Association's

Re: [IAEP] SOAS[DP] Educator's Opinion

2009-09-30 Thread Martin Dengler
Are you guys talking about Sugar or SoaS? Martin pgpgqU1UUy6N6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Vikidia - forward to olpc-sur?

2009-09-30 Thread Bastien
Hi all, Vikidia is a free online enclyclopia for children 8-13, written by both children and adults: http://vikidia.org/ There are currently a french project and a spanish one: http://fr.vikidia.org/index.php/Accueil http://es.vikidia.org/index.php/Vikidia:Portada Can anyone forward

Re: [IAEP] Vikidia - forward to olpc-sur?

2009-09-30 Thread s . boutayeb
Hola, Tengo aqui una informacion comunicada por Bastien Guerry (OLPC France). Se trata del proyecto de wiki redactado por y para los niños mismos. Existe también una version de este proyecto en español. Muy atentamente, Samy Selon Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com: Hi all, Vikidia is a

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Kerr
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote: I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high official in the Bolivian government. Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear, simple and please objective answers

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-09-30

2009-09-30 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. While the decision panel debates [See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-September/008746.html] whether or not Sugar Labs should be a GNU/Linux distributor, I thought it would be worthwhile surveying the GNU/Linux distribution's plans regarding Sugar Release

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Kerr
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote: I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high official in the Bolivian government. Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear, simple and please objective answers

[IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Kerr
from walter's digest: 2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language version. She has kindly made it available for download (See

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-09-30

2009-09-30 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
All of these distributions come with the core (Fructose) activities; some, such as openSUSE, come with many additional (Honey) activities pre-packaged. We've just added the Honey pack to Sugar on Trisquel, and also the graphical usb-creator app. The (430MB) iso url is the same:

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-09-30 Thread Simon Schampijer
Dear Sugar Community, this is the Final Release in our Sucrose 0.86 development cycle (http://sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap#Schedule)! Sucrose 0.86 is the latest version of the Sugar learning platform, consisting of Glucose, the base system environment; and Fructose, a set of demonstration

[IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] CICE-2010: Call for Papers

2009-09-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Galyna Akmayeva g.akmay...@ciceducation.org Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:38 PM Subject: [Edu-sig] CICE-2010: Call for Papers To: edu-...@python.org Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students.

Re: [IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

2009-09-30 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 30.09.2009, at 17:10, Bill Kerr wrote: from walter's digest: 2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language version. She has kindly

Re: [IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

2009-09-30 Thread Gerald Ardito
Bert, Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I am working with 5th grade teachers and students and have been waiting for something like this. YIPEE! Gerald On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 30.09.2009, at 17:10, Bill Kerr wrote: from

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Cole
First: congrats to all. Second: User-friendliness bug: The release notes say Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release. No link to instructions provided in either e-mail or wiki version. Searching the wiki turned up Supported Systems