Am 03.05.2011 17:54, schrieb David Farning: > The theme for day was using the XO to help kids learn. Because this is not > my area of expertise I will defer summarizing the day and take a moment to > explain the rational for a technical focused summit for an education > project. > > There are two aspect to the OLPC ecosystem, technological and educational. > Technologically we face three general classes of problems: hardware, > software, and connectivity. When these three aspects of the project work, > teachers and students have an outstanding tool. When one or more of these > aspects is not working teachers and students have a suboptimal tool. > > Once the tool is created and understood, educators can train teachers to > take advantage of the tool, create content which builds on the affordances > of the tool, and create curriculum which enable teachers to build on their > understanding and available content to create lessons which align with the > needs of their class, school, and country. > > The vision for EduJAM Montevideo 2011 is to bring people working on the > technical aspects together to learn from each other and understand the needs > of educators though a series of presentations and conversations. The goal > of this process is: > 1. Better understand educators needs. > 2. Learn how we as developers and engineers can make a product which is more > effective for educators. 3. Learn and communicate with our fellow developers > and engineers to learn to work more effectively. > > Ideally, another organization will sponsor a complementary event which > focuses on how educators can leverage the tool to enhance learning. These > complementary events can form the nucleus for a dialog which drive the > project forward.
My impressions from the activities yesterday and today can be found at http://olpcuruguay2011.wordpress.com and I've also uploaded some of the photos I took today to http://www.flickr.com/photos/christophd/sets/72157626514302097/ Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel