We will be holding a Sugar Oversight Board meeting at 15UTC (11EST) on
irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. Topics: finalizing the election
details
-walter
--
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a
Announcement:
I have listed a number of Sugar Virtualbox and VMplayer Appliances [1]
on the wiki.
These should be easy to install and use and be especially useful for Mac
Users.
Feedback is appreciated.
Tom Gilliard
satellit
[1]
Tomeu,
nuevamente, muchísimas gracias!
He leído todo el material que nos enviaste y me fue muy útil, muchas gracias.
Una vez más expreso mi preocupación proveniente de lo que he oído en reuniones
presenciales y lo que he leído en los foros.
Las ideas más importantes en la historia de
Gerald did some interesting work last year introducing both Scratch and
eToys to 5th and 8th graders.
Gerald please correct me if I am misremembering.
I think the results were the 8th graders took to Scratch more and the 5th
graders took to eToys more.
Our hypothesis is that the first thing you
Hi Caroline,
I think this is a good observation. And it's interesting because Etoys and
Scratch were both done on top of Squeak, and by some of the same people.
Originally Etoys was aimed at 5th graders and Scratch at high schoolers who
dropped into afternoon computer clubs. There is a lot of
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Caroline,
I think this is a good observation. And it's interesting because Etoys and
Scratch were both done on top of Squeak, and by some of the same people.
Originally Etoys was aimed at 5th graders and Scratch at high
Hi Walter,
Yes, we experimented with this in the early days of the XO (using Alpha
blending
to put two virtual screens over each other). It worked pretty well (done by
Scott Wallace) but the XO in those days was not so great at graphics. Maybe
just
having a mode is good enough (didn't seem
Caroline,
You are remembering well. And I agree with your hypothesis.
The 5th graders took pretty well to Etoys. It is the drawing piece that
hooks them, and then the scripting part that really challenges them. And the
7th and 8th graders love Scratch. It is interesting to me because they also
I'd be curious to hear what the process is with the 5th graders. These were our
main subjects. We worked only through regular classroom teachers (who had been
carefully coached). You will not see any challenged 5th graders if you use a
one on one session with them for about 20-30 minutes. The
Alan,
First, I just want to clarify that I meant challenged in a positive way.
The 5th graders dove into Etoys first through painting, and then through
scripting. However, I agree with what you say about artifacts of a
pedagogical approach. We saw this, too.
Our learning situation involved 4-6
First let me say that based on my experience working with second and third
graders in an inner city public school, eToys, Scratch and Turtle Art, none
of them are inherently too difficult for elementary school children,
especially with 1:1 help at the start and all of them have the potential to
be
Hi Gerald,
Yes, I think the experts approach is a good one also -- we first saw it used
by Betty Edwards (the drawing teacher) and it works very well if the ratio is
about 1 expert to 6 or 7 learners or better.
And we have tried this with Etoys (mostly on adult teachers).
However, of all the
Hi Caroline,
I think that each of them is at its best for just a few years. Each of them was
specifically designed (for different reasons) for relatively short term use.
Etoys can be used longer, but mostly because it also has a particle system, and
an integrated media system. Still, I think
Can we add your dissertation to the Bibliography?
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 19:31, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan,
First, I just want to clarify that I meant challenged in a positive way.
The 5th graders dove into Etoys first through painting, and then through
scripting.
Alan,
Thanks for this.
I am just beginning to work with our 5th grade students and teachers and
will put this into action.
One question for you, if I may. Can you tell me about the first Etoys lesson
you mentioned (with 35 things in 30 minutes)?
Thanks again.
Gerald
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at
Edward,
Sure thing. The citation for the dissertation would be:
Ardito, G. (2010). The shape of disruption: xo laptops in the fifth grade
classroom (Doctoral dissertation). Available from Pace University.
I hope my work will be of some service to your projects. Please let me know
if there is
It's the make a car you can drive yourself one which starts with the painting
of a car, scripting it to go in a circle, steering by modifying the script on
the fly, adding a steering wheel, moving the steering wheel's heading to the
car
turn by, making a gear by dividing the heading by 3,
17 matches
Mail list logo
