Book chapter on building smarter computing cultures.
Chris, Matt, and Kevin have a chapter in Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities. The chapter is a white paper that comes out of our three-year work on Sugar Labs @ … Continue reading
Cursive Writing and Coding: Conflicts over School Goals (Part 1)
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Schools as “museums of virtue”* and schools as engines of change have been dominant and conflicting metaphors in the…
Big Educational Laptop and Tablet Projects: Looking at Ten Countries
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Michael Trucano is the World Bank’s Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, serving as the organization’s focal point on…
Hour of Code: Going the wrong direction!
Originally posted on Kevin Brooks:
I just found an “Hour of Code” link underneath the Google Search bar and had to follow it. Chris Lindgren and I have a work…
Originally posted on OLPC School Server:
Silar’s orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti, usually has power once a day, often in the time between 12pm to 6 or 7am. In…
Originally posted on Monsoon Grey:
On Monday 9th and Wednesday 11th of July 2012, we had two Turtle Art sessions with the children of Class 4 at Our Lady of…
Reverse engineer Rosetta Stone? Maybe not
We’ve been wondering what it would take reverse engineer Rosetta Stone, or just come up with our own Sugar-based ELL program, but this recent study of RS and one other … Continue reading
My Christmas Dragon
I am blogging from here in Pretoria, South Africa. I wish I brought an XO with me. I remember how the XOs could not connect to the NDSU network and that made … Continue reading
Using Comic Life 2 to Make Instructions
I took David’s instructions and “Bartzified” them for children:
Emily’s De-Brick XO Fail
Today I took an XO home and tried to de-brick it using the video that Chris Lindgren posted on the Sugar Labs @ NDSU site. Then I decided to take … Continue reading