On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I
thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much:
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education has
to be very
Zitat von Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I
thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much:
10) Open Source software critical to high quality
From: Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education ? education has
to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the
country ? not something you can design in New York city and will fit another
country
Zitat von Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org:
Christoph wrote:
So in this case it doesn't necessarily make sense for someone in Berlin
(let alone New York) to design a Maths learning activity to be used in
an Austrian school.
I disagree w/ this. Someone in Berlin or NYC can create learning
Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Zitat von Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I
thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much:
10) Open Source
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
From: Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education ? education
has
to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the
country ? not something you can
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education has
to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the
country – not something you can design in New York city and will fit another
country
Liping Ma argues (admittedly from small sample sizes) that
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:18 +0930, Bill Kerr wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org
on the other hand if you are saying that you don't have time to do the
educational research as well as doing everything else then that is
understandable. I wouldn't criticise
I've transcribed a large portion of this interview on my blog:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html
might be handy if you don't have 60 minutes to spare
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
excellent interview, well worth
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:37:42PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote:
I've transcribed a large portion of this interview on my blog:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html
might be handy if you don't have 60 minutes to spare
Thanks very much - 5 mins. vs. 60 mins...makes
Martin Dengler wrote:
A killer app might be an App Store for books, with the ability to
access multiple stores. Project Gutenberg could be a store, for
example. Even just Project Gutenberg support in Read would be cool
(Apologies if this is already available and I don't know about it -
Sayamindu has ported fbreader to the XO, but it is Sugar .82 and is not yet
in SOAS or a.sl.o. It reads epub format among others, which is to be found
on many of the free sites. I made the following XO style library bundle of
the Newbery medal winning children's books by women authors from the
hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I
thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much:
10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education has
to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the
country – not
excellent interview, well worth listening to
this gave me a clearer impression of the challenges facing an xo deployment
than anything else I have seen, read or heard - although much of it is nepal
specific I suspect that much of it would also apply to other developing
countries too
excellent
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