Re: [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On 24 October 2010 17:42, David Farning dfarn...@ubuntu.com wrote: Sugar Labs lost its lead developer. [...] At the risk of angering pretty much everybody Sugar Labs has three fundamental problems. Sugar Labs is optimistic to the point of untruthfulness. Sugar Labs is lead by veto

Re: [IAEP] Colbert Report guest: Nicholas Negroponte

2010-10-26 Thread Carlos Rabassa
Thanks Kevin, I only received your mail today but I just watched the show at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/363111/october-25-2010/nicholas-negroponte Thanks. Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay On Oct 25, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Kevin

[IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
HI All... I watched Negroponte on the Colbert show last night. Nice. He seems to have toned down his former we don't need teachers... kids will do it all line a bit, but it is still implied. Sugata Mitra implies the same in his TED talk:

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-26 Thread James Simmons
Caryl, This is an interesting question. I have a niece (friend of the family sense, not a blood relation) who went to the Illinois Math and Science Academy. This is actually a public boarding school for very bright students. They have no textbooks, probably no School Board, and from what I

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-26 Thread Kevin Cole
While it's true that I was (and still am) somewhat self-motivated when it came to computers, I'd have to say that for me, personally, it was the teachers who either through direct instruction, or through my observation and emulation of them, taught me a sort of zen of programming, for lack of a

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-10-26

2010-10-26 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. Tomeu's departure from the project has set off a lot of introspection, speculation, 'blunt' emails, and thoughtful responses. There is no doubt that we will miss Tomeu. He has been not just a prolific contributor to the project, but also a steady hand, with the professional's

[IAEP] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Transbot: An Interchannel IRC Translator

2010-10-26 Thread Taylor Rose (RIT Student)
Hello, Transbot is an IRC translation bot designed to be a tool to connect IRC channels that are in different languages. Transbot is now in a state of development where it will benefit from community feedback and testing. There is a dedicated version of the bot that communicates between the

Re: [IAEP] africa labs

2010-10-26 Thread Holt
On 10/25/2010 8:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Mozambique is just starting out with 3000 laptops: http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/10#fri-oct-15--first-classroom-sessions Bernie, Can you update these 3 pages? http://olpcMAP.net http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments

Re: [IAEP] Ideas

2010-10-26 Thread Steve Thomas
Kellie, I created a word sort program in Etoys (which is already on the OLPC) here is a blog entry on the project Etoys Minute - Word Sortshttp://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2010/10/etoys-minute-word-sorts.html the actual project is posted on the Squeakland site

Re: [IAEP] Ideas

2010-10-26 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I have had requests for a few things over the years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods - these are popular math manipulative and an online version would be cool. Here are some Cuisinaire Rods in