On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > === Sugar Digest ===
> 2. Narrative: Bryan Barry and Michael Stone have initiated a discussion > about inadequacies in the Sugar tool chain (See > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-October/008863.html and > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-October/008864.html). > > Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to > manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for > learning.—Bryan Barry > > 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. > —Michael Stone > > I questioned the dichotomy between manipulating narratives and modes for > discovery. When I think about Sugar, I think about its providing a > scaffolding for discovering, expressing, critiquing, and reflecting. > Manipulating narrative seems to cut across all of these area (as does > collaboration). We don't yet support (natively) much in the way of > organizing data to make an analysis or argument. But it seems overstated to > say that these deficiencies mean Sugar is not appropriate for learning. > There is certainly a paucity of lesson plans developed around Sugar to help > teachers answer the question of how one best leverages the Sugar toolkit for > learning. And undoubtedly, there is a dearth of readily packaged and > categorized content. But I don't see these as fundamental flaws in Sugar as > much as a place where more effort needs to be invested; Sugar is reaching a > point of maturity where such investments make sense. Sugar is an appropriate > component of what needs to be a larger learning ecosystem. Gutenberg slammed for inventing movable type, new press, but not newspapers, novels, scientific journals, textbooks, and tabloids! Film at 11!! -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
