Jennifer,
I manage a deployment of 140 XOs with 5th grade students in a middle school
in Westchester County, NY. We trained about 4-5 students per classroom (we
call them the Tech Team), and they support their teachers and fellow
students.
You can read about it here:
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
of
challenged students result from such artifacts).
Cheers,
Alan
--
*From:* Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
*To:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
*Cc:* Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org; danielgast...@yahoo.com.ar;
Tim McNamara paperl
the first Etoys exercise -- in which
the learners do and learn about 35 things in about 30 minutes).
Best regards,
Alan
--
*From:* Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
*To:* Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com
*Cc:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com; Cherry
if there is anything else I can do.
Best,
Gerald
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
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
it takes for individuals to
get it, and what questions and prompts they need. Kind of a perfect example
where mass class loses badly and one on one is very efficient and
effective.
Cheers,
Alan
--
*From:* Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
*To:* Alan Kay
+1 to all motions from me as well.
Gerald
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
In case you are interested in casting your vote on the 3 motions we
passed (Please see
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2010-12-01),
please send
I think back to the various work (especially Piaget, Vygotsky, and Papert)
that investigates learning as a social phenomenon.
The XO Laptops and Sugar derive directly, in my humble opinion, from these
principles, especially Papert's concept of Constructionism.
The issue for me, then, is not
Christoph,
Thanks for your email.
I also got to read Claudia's article. I have been familiar with and inspired
by her research. In fact, in informed my doctoral dissertation, which
focused on the changes to the classroom learning environment through the use
of the XO laptops.
I have been
as in the classroom, when teachers (and others) find the
students participating so actively and responsibly, they will be called to
join in?
What do you think.
Gerald
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:
On 01/21/2011 08:54 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote originally
, it turns out it was not that *you* were
reluctant, but rather your teachers? Nice of you to take up the blame. I
feel so encouraged by your attitude, and much honored to learn from you
Yama
On 01/21/2011 10:04 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
Yama,
Your response actually gave me an idea
Edward,
I like your idea. And plan on setting up a blog, or other site, where
the students I am working with could share with one another about
their experiences with the XOs.
Gerald
On Saturday, January 22, 2011, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I have suggested creating a walled
Caryl,
I am working on a MacBook Pro running OX 10.6.6 and Etoys 4.1.
Just like in Sugar, I just drag the photo onto Etoys and it is imported.
I do the same in Windows.
Hope this helps.
Gerald
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
What is the
Cherry,
I am going to be using the manual with some teachers soon.
I will make updates from those sessions.
Gerald
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote:
Hi Carlos,
The manual is not completely done. It needs editing and we would appreciate
all the
I wanted to add that I agree with Steve.
I have been working with 5th-8th graders, many of whom love Turtle Art,
Scratch, and Etoys. When they get the bug from this kind of programming, I
want to introduce them to Pippy, but, like Steve said, I am not sure what to
do other than press run.
Gerald
Thanks, Scott.
Gerald
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/pippy-examples/tree/ has a set
of pippy examples in both English and Spanish, based on the example
code in the Commodore 64 user's manual (which taught me
Walter,
The type of lab notebook activity you describe could be extended beyond the
cooking area. I can see students using this for all kinds of scientific
investigations.
My two cents.
Gerald
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have designed a pilot program to teach our 6th graders
about programming software and
. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have designed a pilot program to teach our
Walter,
That would be great. Thanks.
Can you look and see when in September might work for you?
Gerald
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter,
Thanks. And I'll
Sean,
I would be happy to participate on the panel.
Gerald
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Many thanks Christian for this update
Yes I too saw that although Walter (the Sugar Digest [1]), myself (on
the lists [2] plus the olpcnews piece [3]), John (on
I have been using Scratch and Etoys with students in grades 5-8 for the past
4 years or so. In this work, I have seen an interesting pattern. The younger
students (5th and 6th graders) ALWAYS prefer Etoys to Scratch. (I am talking
here about first exposure).They love the drawing component and then
It's good for me, too.
Gerald
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
I've not heard back from everyone yet, but it seems that Tuesdays at
4PM EST (21 UTC) may work. Let's schedule our next meeting for the
20th?
regards.
-walter
--
Walter Bender
What about an Activity (maybe branching from Physics) that would allow
children to build their own virtual Rube Goldberg machines?
I would be happy to help.
Gerald
2012/1/8 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
Christian,
I'll be there.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
We met today on IRC to discuss the website design and content, but not
many were present. It is important that we get your feedback as the work on
the
Steve,
Your question made me think about research I read about a couple of years
ago. The researcher was investigating narratives between patients and
doctors. Their major finding was that patients naturally needed to narrate
what they were experiencing, and that close to 100% of the time, the
Yama,
Thanks so much for sharing this.
I am planning to order some to test out with my students on the XOs.
Perhaps we can open some wiki pages devoted to this?
Cheers,
Gerald
2012/2/11 Luis Galindo llwwwl...@gmail.com
I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0.
Thank you Yama
I'll be there.
Gerald
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 27 2012, Walter Bender wrote:
It has been a while. A few things to catch up on. Can we muster a
quorum for the proposed date/time?
I'll be there.
Thanks,
- Chris.
--
Chris
+1
Gerald
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Buried in the meeting log [1] is a motion [5] to adopt three changes
[2, 3, 4] to the Trademark [6] and Local Labs [7] pages in the wiki.
The motion was seconded and we began a vote, but whereas it seemed
+1
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot to send out a reminder about yesterday's meeting and thus we
did not have a quorum. I'd like to try again early next week. How
about Tuesday, 18 September at 17:00 EST, (21:00 UTC).
Topics include our
I'll be there.
Gerald
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Sebastian Silva
sebast...@somosazucar.org wrote:
I'll be there.
Regards,
Sebastian
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:04:20 -0400
Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
For once I remembered to send a meeting reminder :P
We (the Sugar
Daniel and others,
This thread has really inspired me. I am going to work with my
students to develop Sugar activities.
I have James' book. Are there other resources I need?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote:
--- On Wed, 9/19/12, S.
Walter,
Sounds good.
Thanks.
Gerald
P.S. And congratulations on the pending new arrival.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel and others,
This thread has really
I have finally got to work on this.
Are there any GUI tools for the programming, or does it all have to be
via command line?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Luis Galindo llwwwl...@gmail.com wrote:
I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0.
Thank you Yama :-)
for the kids.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
I have finally got to work on this.
Are there any GUI tools for the programming, or does it all have
at 5:01 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Yama and Walter,
Thanks.
I was not as clear as I wanted to be. Arduino (or Energia, an
alternative) would be fine. I was speaking about using mspdebug, which
is purely command line based.
mspdebug is packaged in Fedora so it should
the image...)
On 09/26/2012 11:14 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Yama and Walter,
Thanks.
I was not as clear as I wanted to be. Arduino (or Energia, an
alternative) would be fine. I was speaking about using
I just this link to a project using the TI Launchpad as a robot brain:
http://e2e.ti.com/group/microcontrollerprojects/m/msp430microcontrollerprojects/496334.aspx
I am going to give it a try.
Gerald
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:18 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
You can have arduino IDE too
Tony,
I have been using the Energia IDE on my MacBook Pro for the Launchpad.
As I understand it, it is an Arduino variant, free and open source:
http://energia.nu/
I am not sure if it will run on the XO, but it is an option as I see it.
I look forward to hearing about your progress. I will share
Hello.
I have been playing with the Turtle Blocks plugins for Follow Me, We
Do Robots, Lego Mindstorms, and Arduino. They installed perfectly in
Turtle Blocks (as expected).
I have two questions:
1. I will need to install Turtle Blocks and these plugins on 25-50
XO-1s. Do I have to do the
for the plugin.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
I have been playing with the Turtle Blocks plugins for Follow Me, We
Do Robots, Lego
Tony,
I have been trying to get the Arduino to work with the XO-1 laptops.
(Thanks to your great blog posts) I have successfully installed the Arduino
IDE on the laptop, and it works great.
Tonight, I installed the Arduino plugin for Turtle Art and (once again
using your blog posts), created my
Alan,
I have uploaded the newest version of Firmata to the Arduino board, and
still get the first error in your list.
Any thoughts about what I should do next?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
The Arduino plugin have
Alan,
Thanks. I'll try it out.
Gerald
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Replace this file in TurtleArt.activity/plugins/arduino/
This file not have any calidation, if something is wrong, in the log will
appears that.
Tony,
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:09 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Gerald
Maybe the baud rate or the device name do not match.
Somewhere in the Arduino plugin code it searches for ttyusbn where n=1,2,3
...
Your Arduino board could be ttyusbn or
When I do the grep, I get nothing returned.
When I go into the /dev directory, there is nothing ttyUSBn.
What do I do now?
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
If he have the latest version, the plugin makes a list of the ttyUSB
Alan,
When I plug and unplug the board, I noticed changes to the list of stuff in
/dev.
When the Arduino is plugged in, I see /dev/ttyACHO (or ttyACMO). Does this
make sense?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
When I do the grep, I
Alan,
Upon doing some research, apparently /dev/ttyACM0 is the identifier for
the board.
Do I have to modify the plugin? If so, how do I do this?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
When I do the grep, I get nothing returned.
When
.
I would appreciate any help you can provide.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Walter,
Thanks for the amazingly quick response.
I see TurtleBot. I
Walter,
Thanks. Sorry if this is elementary. So, I download both files on the XO,
and then run the rules script?
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks
Walter,
Thanks for clarifying.
I am not sure of the interest either. Mine may be an unusual case. I have
We Dos and Mindstorms and Arduinos and Launchpads and so I am trying to
test them all. I imagine I will reduce the number of tools shortly.
Does that make sense?
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Turtle Blocks question
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the help last night on the Arduino plugin.
I know what I need to do.
And now, another question. I have been working with the plugin for We
Do
...@hotmail.com wrote:
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:00:35 -0400
From: walter.ben...@gmail.com
To: gerald.ard...@gmail.com
CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Turtle Blocks question
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com
Walter,
I think this is an important enhancement as well. I am thinking of some
kind of graphical distinction with the bricks, something like icons. The
colors get too noisy. Would you also need some rules then about which
bricks can and cannot connect together if we are crossing devices?
Gerald
, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Walter,
I have been testing it out this afternoon. It works really well.
I only have one We Do here, so I can't test out if it sees different
devices
Walter,
How great it is that? Thanks.
I don't think you included the link to the bits.
Gerald
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
Slightly off topic, but I got my hands on a USB microscope the other
day and could not resist writing the Turtle Art
Sameer,
Thanks for doing this work.
Here are some thoughts In the deployment I have been managing we have used
the server in two ways:
1. As a jabber server only. We have about 140 XO-1s, and without the jabber
server, the cross-talk slowed down the devices dramatically when more than
about 30
Yama,
This is really great. And thanks for updating the wiki (sorry about the
cold, though).
Can you provide specifics on the hardware/frame for the robot?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
Bouncy robot powered by
there.
Hey Jerry! do you have handy the blueprint of the tricycle that we may
share it with the friends here?
Thanks!
On 11/25/2012 08:32 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
Yama,
This is really great. And thanks for updating the wiki (sorry about the
cold, though).
Can you provide specifics
Rita, et. al.
Thanks for this great work!
Gerald
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Rita Freudenberg
r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de wrote:
A New Etoys Book is available:
Learning with Etoys Imagine, Invent, Insprire
After participating in a Doc Camp at Google, the Etoys EducationTeam is
Hello.
I have been asked by my school district to teach a one semester course on
computer programming to some of our high school students. I was already settled
on Python. In my planning, I thought it would be great if the students built an
application for Sugar/XO Laptop. I have, as I think
Walter,
I am looking over this list.
I am wondering about the requirements for a mentor.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
[1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite
This is really great news!
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
Sugar Labs has been accepted in Google Summer of Code 2013. Thanks to
everyone in the community who contributed to our application. Now it is
time to recruit students. More details coming
One of my students had a question about Turtle Art that I couldn't answer:
is it possible to have a sensing event kick off a program instead of a user
action?
Thanks.
Gerald
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
Walter,
This is very inspiring work.
Thank you.
Gerald
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
== Sugar Digest ==
Free software gives the license. Sugar provides the means.
1. I'm back from a week in Paraguay and Uruguay to celebrate Turtle
Art Days
This is really impressive.
Congratulations!
Gerald
On Oct 31, 2013 8:45 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
we are proud to announce the release of Sugar 0.100.0. A lot is new for
both users and developers, see the release notes
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Notes
Walter,
I will be at the meeting, and expect to arrive late.
Gerald
On Sunday, November 3, 2013, Walter Bender wrote:
We have a SLOB meeting scheduled for Monday, 4 November at 9AM EST
(2PM GMT). Please join us on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting
(chat.sugarlabs.org)
Tenemos una reunión
Caryl,
I am really intrigued by this idea, and am interested in participating in
the project.
I would encourage that you add Turtle Blocks to the scope of work.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote:
Hi Folks…
First I would like to state
Walter,
I agree with your position about this. I often think of it in these terms:
we want to talk about depth of learning and not just proficiency in regards
to skills and content. To do that, we need to offer al alternative world
to the one that argues for more and more high stakes testing. The
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