Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

2009-05-06 Thread Bastien
Great Sugar Digest and pointers, thanks. Walter Bender writes: > Diego is of the believe that creativity is a skill that can be taught; For the sake of conceptual clarity, I would myself consider creativity as a meta-skill: the skill to activate other specific skills and make something out of t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

2009-05-05 Thread Bastien
Hi all, following David Farning's advice, we want to keep the SugarCamp as informal as possible. Yet we want to have some tangible output, on top of the obvious (and noble) task of building the Sugar community. So we have been brainstorming a bit and here are 17 challenges that we may want to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

2009-05-04 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Walter Bender wrote: [snip] > > Diego introduced me to Grace Hopper's formula for creativity that I > had not previously encountered: The probability of creativity is a > function of knowledge, innovation, and experience, modulated by > attitude. (Historical footno

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

2009-05-03 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest=== I encourage you to join two threads on the Education List this week: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-April/005382.html, which has boiled down to an instruction vs construction debate; and http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-April/005342.html, which has boil