On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Martin Dengler > <mar...@martindengler.com> wrote: > > Nice hack for holding kids' attention while teaching them > > "programming": use the parents as the computer. > > > > http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/ > > > > I wonder if there is any direct tie-in to Sugar activities? > > > For some reason I have a vague memory of someone doing a workshop > where people holding XO laptops were acting like "robot turtles" > driven by the programmed movements on the screen. I have a mental > image of people in a field. Does anyone else remember something like > that or am I just imagining it? > Not sure whether that's what you have in mind but IIRC Tim Falconer has used a very similar approach in some of his eToys workshops on Haiti and the Virgin Islands... Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu
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