>Michael Stone wrote: >Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in >summary):
"Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for learning." [1] >This statement seems to me both indisputable and damning; if true, it >strikes to the core of the claim that Sugar is appropriate for learning. There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like myself) underestimate the importance of narratives b/c we are surrounded by libraries, online tutorials in our native language, extensive versions of wikipedia in our language, etc. There's a real drought of narratives for poor countries. For example, the library at our pilot school Vishwamitra has about 20-30 books in it for 600 kids. Our pilot school, Bashuki, has something like 10 books. There are roughly 3 small public libraries in Kathmandu, 2 of which are at foreign embassies. There is a Nepali language wikipedia but it is very small in size. If you are interested learning more about what is happening at Nepal's pilot schools, check out this formative evaluation: http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/321 -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
