I posted a comment on Bryan's call for textbook/narrative creation. http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html
Let's do this, Bryan. Where should we set up the workshop? What tools do we need? Wiki, mailing lists, forums, repository...? I and others have plenty of ideas for textbook replacements using Etoys, Measure, and other Sugar Activities in pretty much every subject. What we need is a place and a process, not only to write, program, and otherwise create learning materials, but to get them tested in classrooms, refined, and put into new curricula. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Bill Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> >> Even though Bryan has already found some partial solutions to this >> problem [2], we should take time to debate the more primitive thesis >> that: >> >> "Narrative is a basic component of much educational material which >> Sugar ought to 'natively' recognize, respond to, and manipulate." >> >> so that we may decide whether this issue should receive a greater share >> of our limited design and implementation resources. >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> >> [1]: Sugar presently records actions which may occasionally be >> decomposed into narrative or situated within an external narrative; >> however, Sugar is presently blind to these relationships. >> >> [2]: Bryan is currently encoding narratives in HTML and is attempting to >> use Offline Moodle to make this cheaper to support. I decided to write >> this email because I believe that it might well be worth our time to >> either give him a hand with his effort or to bake support for similar >> use cases directly in to Sugar. > > bryan's ideas are explained more fully in this article on olpcnews: > http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html > > the comments there are worth reading too > > it's hard to discuss without having the ideas spelt out > "narrative is good" is not really a sufficient basis for a discussion but > bryan's article has more detail > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- 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
