Alan
You ask whether Bill's Physics Activity suggestions have anything to do with
real science. You rightly point out that the Physics Activity is an imperfect
simulation of the real world and just as mysterious. Certainly playing with the
Physics Activity is not the best way to discover how
Just to clarify, when I spoke of studying a small deployment closely,
I was thinking of both the GPA pilot and any other closely studied
small deployment, which could be anywhere, including Nepal.
Similar findings (e.g. first-time difficulty of quitting Activities?)
in disparate conditions will
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:25 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Alan
We study complex numbers and transfinite numbers even though they aren't real
world. Root(-1) isn't real world but its a useful abstraction to study.
This turns out not to be the case. Complex numbers are required in
None of the numbers are real world - they are human-made representations
of either something in the real world, or something else in some culture.
Bridges between cultures and real world are built both ways. Imaginary
numbers used to be purely cultural for a while, until bridges Cherlin
mentions
Bill and Tony,
I simply ask that you ponder much more deeply on this issue. It's very
important, and it also is part of the helping people learn certain modern
subjects problem. Many of the people who have embraced the OLPC and XO and
Sugar are using it for other means (contact with and use
Sugar is blessed with a number of powerful activities that are platforms for
open ended creativity.
- Turtle Art
- eToys
- Tam Tam Suite
- Scratch
- FlipSticks
I notice they all have names that under promise and don't set up rigid
expectations. I think Physics could follow this
Hi Caroline,
And adults and children just love being creative and expressing themselves.
And, this is especially the case around the world when computers are introduced
with applications that allow people to make things.
So far so good.
To continue one of the themes of this thread, let's look
This seems like a perfect fit!
Sean
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Caroline
Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
http://www.computerclubhouse.org/
The Computer Clubhouse is
an international network of computer centers for youth. Their flagship clubhouse is housed in the Museum of
One of these Computer Clubhouses is in Arlington, VA, not far from
Sugar Labs DC. Maybe the Boston flagship can do an intro for us?
Mike
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On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
This seems like a perfect fit!
Sean
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at
On Sunday 16 Aug 2009 9:42:39 am Bill Kerr wrote:
Is there are real danger of students getting the wrong idea about science
from using the physics program? I'm not really sure - some will, some won't
- but I think my students see it as a game type program rather than a
reality show. Their
Sean's point is important reminding us that when we talk of the
Sugar user experience similar findings can be found on small
deployments everywhere or in large deployments everywhere..
the differences are related to resources of hardware, electricity,
networking and in general scalability of this
Tons of progress with over 30 very different people participating now--
nevermind the evening social events Mike Lee all are organizing almost
every night.
This week's Call Conclusions / Forward Challenges:
(A) People not familiar with Book Sprints should read why on earth we're
each paying
FYI.. (on topic?) See current related topic on slashdot.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/16/189257/Simple-Portable-Physics-Simulations
http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/games.html
Available under GPLv2, which isn't obvious from the website.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Alan
Today I uploaded 2 compressed file and accompanying readme.txt's
Both still require a 4GB USB Stick.
They are both cleared of /.sugar ready to use on first boot.
They are made with F11net install CD with ONLY Sugar-Desktop selected.
This is all possible as sdziallas recently modified the
Tomeu Vizoso schrieb:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 03:39, Raul Gutierrez Segalesr...@rieder.net.py
wrote:
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com
wrote:
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Or are you saying the feedback is getting
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