On Oct. 5 Walter Bender wrote:
In the early 1960s, while studying with Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert
had the insight that computation was a thing to think with.
Ken Iverson's Turing Award lecture was titled Notation as a Tool of Thought.
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
He, of course,
Is anybody goint to this event to talk about education in and with
Free Software for girls?
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Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] 9/21 Cambridge area software freedom event
To:
On Sun, August 25, 2013 8:14 pm, James Simmons wrote:
Between Get Books and Read Etexts and the Browse Activities a child
wishing
to study his own religion or others has a wealth of material to look at.
Personally I'd leave it at that. Sword is OK, and if there is something
for studying
I have been offered funding for a research project on XOs, Sugar, and
OERs, and I would like to get information on similar projects.
The funding would cover XOs and other equipment (power, WiFi, server),
teacher training, and testing, at least, for one classroom, preferably
in an inner-city
If there is sufficient interest to get a team together, I can probably
attend. I can drive over from Indiana. I see that our Janet Swisher
will be speaking. So we could definitely organize a sprint.
On Wed, April 10, 2013 8:39 am, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Hi Gonzalo,
thanks a lot for
[I'm sorry, this got lost in cyberspace for a week.]
I'll give the same answer here.
Actually, it was agriculture that led to the idea of government as a
protection racket and to kneecapping or worse of those who refused to pay
their taxes. Hunter-gatherer cultures are tribal, not national, and
On Wed, February 27, 2013 8:09 pm, Steve Thomas wrote:
I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
suggestions and non
I added a paragraph on the documentary and the YouTube excerpt, with
references, to the English-language version of the page. Can somebody
let the children know so that they can translate it for the
Spanish-language page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestina,_Peru
I have wanted to suggest this
Would anybody care to submit a tutorial about Linux on an XO or Sugar
on a Stick? They are asking specifically about spreading Linux around
the world. I have some ideas about what we could show.
http://video.linux.com/100-linux-tutorials
100 Linux Tutorials Video Campaign
Join us in building a
You can't do functions with arguments in Turtle Art, and so obviously
you can't do full recursion with stacked and shadowed arguments
directly in Turtle Art, but you can implement much of recursion in any
of the usual ways using the push and pop stack blocks or other dodges.
Have a look at the
On Thu, January 10, 2013 11:35 am, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
Hi,
on behalf of my colleagues I'm looking for a school they can visit while
they are attending FETC conference in Orlando at the end of this month.
Here in Magdeburg, Germany, we are working in a project classroom of the
future,
For images of the eye under CC-BY-SA,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eye
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure why, but I not like much Etoys (with all my respect to my
namesake Alan Kay :-)
I prefer a pure-python activity. For
Can we use this for Sugar Labs?
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Tony Forster and I have been creating Turtle Art tutorials on various
art, math, programming, and Computer Science subjects, which you can
find at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Tutorials
Please let us know whether any of this would be useful in your
curriculum, and whether
I would go further. Can we invite the children to give us their
stories? They should be wikified, blogged, made the subject of
articles in the geek and education press, and spread even more widely
than that. Better still, can we invite the schools where this children
are learning and sharing to
Anybody want to go and talk about all of our girls?
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Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] AdaCamp July 10 - 11 in DC, Applications are open
To: Discussion re: increasing women's
Anybody attending? Anybody going to tell them about our collaboration tools?
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On Wed, March 7, 2012 7:37 am, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
We receive many times request about adding help in the activities,
and if is true Sugar propose a exploratory approach,
not all the people learn in the same way,
and there are people who prefer a little guidance.
I yield to nobody in my
On Sat, February 25, 2012 8:46 pm, Chris Leonard wrote:
+1
Or, in the J terminology I am using in updating Ken Iverson's book,
Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment, :
I sent Walter a note that Google is now offering grants to US 501c3s.
I will see if I can get more detail for the meeting. There
On Wed, February 8, 2012 6:15 pm, Walter Bender wrote:
It is that time of year again. We need to start soliciting
participants in Google Summer of Code [1, 2]. We also need to organize
our application to the program as a mentoring organization. Please
contact me if you are interested in
Can any of us arrange to stay with somebody in the area while we work together?
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 03:55, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote:
Plz read all the wiki details RSVP here if you will contribute+attend, as
we will very shortly reach capacity:
http://j.mp/xomanual
20 People
Please pass this on to
OLPC Australia olpc...@lists.laptop.org ,
OLPC New Zealand olpc...@lists.laptop.org ,
OLPC Oceania olpc-ocea...@lists.laptop.org ,
Grassroots grassro...@lists.laptop.org
On Fri, February 3, 2012 7:41 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Hello everyone,
You
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On Fri, January 27, 2012 12:07 pm, Pablo Flores wrote:
This question is meant for people working on OLPC/Sugar deployment teams:
What documentation do you think is important to have about Sugar and to
keep updated?
Thank you for this question. I would particularly like to hear from
teachers
On Thu, January 26, 2012 5:07 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On 27 January 2012 08:55, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com
wrote:
On 01/26/2012 01:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On 25 January 2012 03:13, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com
wrote:
On 01/24/2012 07:49 AM,
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