On 09.03.2013, at 06:45, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
Sugata Mitra has done it again! Watch his great new TED 2013 talk, from a
month ago, where he introduces a new approach to collaborative learning… not
one laptop per child, but 4 children per laptop (or
Thanks Kevin,
I think choice 2 is the best given the current situation. I've never done
an OOB build, I don't have any secured XO-1.0 laptops to verify the signing
process. There's an extreme urgency to meet a Wednesday deadline, and I've
got some other priorities to deal with before leaving,
Hi,
I would like to respond to the very critical article Bert shared about Sugata
Mitra's work. The author, Audrey Watters, evidently hasn't watched all of
Mitra's TED talks, nor did she pay close attention to this one.
For example, the videos in this talk clearly show the active
These Haiti's laptops are a mix of secured and unsecured XO-1s. They are
Give1Get1 redonations, mostly running Release 10.1.3 untouched, we'll be
upgrading on the ground in Haiti within days.
We'd love if the longstanding
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick could be fixed on 13.1.0
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
When I was teaching I had a saying usually attributed to Confucius
(carefully hand drawn in calligraphy… no computers available to print it
then) and hung above the chalkboard (old technology). It was my motto for
Arthur Benjamin says: teach statistics before calculus (check on TED) - cant
paste link now
Free and democratic schools experience indicates that strong testing and
guidance understood traditionally are at least obsolete.
and btw children in free schools learn calculus when they see the
