FOSS VT

How can Sugar help teachers

• Close the Acheivement Gap
• Help all Students Learn at High Levels

Think Globally

"I agree with Gerald about the children taking charge of technology. For 6 and 7 years old children, that holds true. At the start, many children may be asking for a lot of help because they are used to instant gratification based on their experience on video games and other games they play on computers. But when we frame the learning experience as "exploring activities" rather than "play games," their mindset shifts, and so does their behavior. They begin responding to each other's questions, e.g., "Oh, I know how to do that. Let me show you." They talk to each other as they explore."

Contact!

Caroline@sugarlabs.org

www.sugarlabs.org

wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix

FOSS VT - 2010

OLPC:

One Laptop per Child

Nicolas Negroponte

Caroline Meeks

Learn in Communities

Who am I?

M.I.T.

• Student:Harvard Graduate School for Eduction - Technology Innovation and Education Masters Program
• Company: Solution Grove - Open Source Software for education since 2001
• Volunteer:Piloted Sugar on a Stick at Gardner School in Boston and Sugar on a Stick evangalist

Caroline@Meekshome.com

"It's an education project, not a laptop project"

Gerald Ardito

Walter Bender

Teacher in Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Graduate Student at Pace University

Lynn May Lim

First Grade Teacher

Cambridge Friends School

XO

¿What is Sugar?

• O.S. Open Source.
• Promotes collaborative learning.
• Designed from the ground up especially for children.

In 2010 now at 396,000 Laptops

Deployments with place names sized to deployment size. Data date unknown but its an idea

Sugar on a Stick!

Two ways to get Access to Sugar

Boots the computer

from a USB Stick

• No Hard drive required
• The computer can run windows
• Works on Pentium IV and above

OLPC XO

Rugged Affordable Computers for the developing world

Sugar on a Stick

• Use Existing Hardware
• Carry only the USBStick

Activities:

Features:

• Sugar can run on almost any PC.

A liveUSB stick does not touch the existing hard disk installation.

• Based in open source. Don´t pay annual licenses.

Don´t need antivirus.

• It´s free.
• It has support from developers.

Math

Reading, Writing and 21st Century Communication

Exploration

Science.

Act Individually

Lesson Plans using Activities

• Try it
• Try it with a kid
• Start a pilot
• Find a Bug and report it
• Recruit your favorite geeks to help
• Write - Blogs, Lesson Plans
• Join the IAEP (Its an Education Project) mailing list

Standards Based Examples

eToys - Create a book on ecology - 5th Grade

Memorize - 3rd Grade Social Studies - States

Ubuntu - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix

This presenstion is a remix!

Thank you to:

Patricio Acevedo Jimenez

patricio@educalibre.cl

Gerald Ardito

Pace University

Sugar Labs Chile

Socket Wrench of Liberty - Photo by Meghan L of Flickr

Caryl Bigenho

OLPC Support Volunteer

Sugar Labs Facilitator

Retired Teacher

Windows Air - The terminal is pretty and colourful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.

Mac Airlines - All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up.

If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines...

Air DOS - Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they push again, jump on again, and so on...

Linux Air - Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself.

When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"

UNIX Airways - Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.