Netbook World Summit | | Paris Walter Bender Executive Director Sugar Labs Learning Learning: Sugar and the Netbook Revolution

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Talk outline –A new convergence –Goals and means –Theory: Learning learning –Practice: The Sugar learning platform –Sugar Labs

Netbook World Summit | | Paris My slides wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Presentations

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Media convergence 1985: “Being digital”—Negroponte predicted that publishing, broadcast, and computing were on a collision course.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris A new convergence 2008: Being open—open communications; open knowledge; and open media.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Open systems: the netbook opportunity (1) open communication: control is shifting to end users; (2) open knowledge: knowledge creation is shifting to end users; (3) open media: non-traditional form-factors and non-traditional business models.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris a culture war

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Goal To give every child the opportunity for learning to learn

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Means A free software platform that facilitates exploring, expressing, reflection, and critique...

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Means to the means...and a hardware platform to run it on!

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Pedagogical foundations John Dewey Jean Piaget Paulo Freire Maria Montessori Seymour Papert Lev Vygotsky Donald Schön Alan Kay

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Senegal 1983

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Thailand 2008

Netbook World Summit | | Paris “Helping children do real science... is the best way to help them move from dogma to skeptical, empirically derived models.” —Alan Kay Raising a generation of critical thinkers

The creative society? or e-Aprendizaje 2 Agosto 05Walter Bender ¿?

Netbook World Summit | | Paris teacher: "What are you doing?" student: "I'm thinking". teacher: "Fine, but get back to work". —Michael Barber, The Learning Game

Netbook World Summit | | Paris “ah ha” moments Think of the great learning moments in your life.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris The culture of free software...

Netbook World Summit | | Paris is the culture sharing...

Netbook World Summit | | Paris and the culture of critique.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Conventional wisdom The teacher tells; the student listens; knowledge is an object; and to possess it is to be educated.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Unconventional wisdom Everyone is a teacher and a learner; knowing is action; to be educated is to have appropriated knowledge.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris the pedagogy of inquiry To ask a question is a creative act. student: How do I join the community? teacher: Ask a question. teacher: Welcome to the community!

Netbook World Summit | | Paris 1. Learning is not a service: Information is a noun; learning is a verb.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris 2. We learn through doing, so if we want more learning, we want more doing.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris 3. Love is a better master than duty.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Studio thinking 1. imagine and realize 2. critique and reflect 3. iterate

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It is appropriate to appropriate

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Explore, express, and debug write reflect draw create multimedia program surf the web read chat play multimedia play games

Netbook World Summit | | Paris simplicity God's law Buxton's law time complexity the world people simplify

Netbook World Summit | | Paris simplicity God's law Buxton's law time complexity the world people learn

Simplicity

discovery

Collaboration

collaboration

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Journal

reflection

A thing to think with

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Turtle Art with sensors

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Free and open Sugar is available under a (GPL) General Public License.

modifying Sugar

Python class MyLayout(RingLayout): def _calculate_position(self, radius, icon_size, index, children_count): width, height = self.box.get_allocation() # angle decreases as the radius increases inc = index / 6.0 angle = index * (2 * math.pi / inc) - math.pi / 2 # radius is proportional to index/children_count mymin = _MINIMUM_RADIUS *.667 nrad = ((radius - mymin) * (index * 1.1) / children_count) + mymin x = nrad * math.cos(angle) + (width - icon_size) / 2 y = nrad * math.sin(angle) + (height - icon_size – style.GRID_CELL_SIZE) / 2 return x, y

It works!

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Tabla comparativa de resultados – Prueba de Comprensión lectora Before After 5 mo. Failing Intermediate Advanced

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Mission 1. further the objectives of Sugar; 2. support the Sugar community of users and developers; 3. establish regional "Sugar Labs" around the world.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Try it on the XO-1

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coming soon...

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Try it on the Beagle Board!

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sostenibilidad ≠ sustentabilidad

Hassouna h The riskiest path is the status quo.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris With apologies to Pascal: Sugar and inductive proof By proving that the first statement in the sequence of statements is true, Sugar, and then proving that if any one statement in the sequence of statements is true, then so is the next one.

Netbook World Summit | | Paris merci grazie danke thank you

Netbook World Summit | | Paris Contact Walter Bender Executive Director Sugar Labs Senior Research Scientist MIT Media Lab