Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:08 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Edward wrote I am working on a version of Turtle Art that will use icons rather than text labels on the tiles, and I want to test how much of it the preliterate can grasp, and what we can teach using that capability. We can

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:19, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 17.06.2009, at 09:32, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:08 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I think the mathematics blocks are best left as is. I insist on using รท rather than /, and I want

[IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-17 Thread Tony Forster
It's working. You can see the palettes at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/c/cd/Iconic_Turtle_Art.odt I'll extract some Journal entries using these tiles tomorrow and post them, along with a bundle of .svg files of tiles and palettes with installation instructions. Thanks, that's great news!

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread Walter Bender
I really need to get hover tool tips working... -walter On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:08 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Edward wrote I am working on a version of Turtle Art that will use icons rather than text labels on the tiles, and I want to test how much of it the preliterate can

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Kay
] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten Edward wrote I am working on a version of Turtle Art that will use icons rather than text labels on the tiles, and I want to test how much of it the preliterate can grasp, and what we can teach using that capability. We can demonstrate many topics in Turtle Art

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread forster
Radia Perlman in the 70s when at student at MIT did extensive experiments with preliterate children and the LOGO turtle and built a number of interfaces for them. She also spent some time at Xerox PARC where we duplicated her interfaces and did many similar experiments with chldren 3

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hola Alejandro, I'm currently not aware of any other OLPC or Sugar projects working with children at that age. Most pilots and

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-05-05 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Maria, Are you in touch with the 4th grade math project out of RIT? Thanks! Caroline On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote: My company has developed some software prototypes for early algebra that could work for 4-6 year olds. I would be interested in

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-04-30 Thread Maria Droujkova
My company has developed some software prototypes for early algebra that could work for 4-6 year olds. I would be interested in adopting these ideas for OLPC, but I'd need some collaborators for that. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-04-29 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hola Alejandro, I'm currently not aware of any other OLPC or Sugar projects working with children at that age. Most pilots and deployments currently seem to be focused on primary-school children (age 6 to 10). What kind of educational activities did you have in mind? One really great activity

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-04-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hola Alejandro, I'm currently not aware of any other OLPC or Sugar projects working with children at that age. Most pilots and deployments currently seem to be focused on primary-school children (age 6