Changes

As a community, we have consensus that Sugar and Sugar activities should be freely and readily available to learners everywhere. This would suggest that the developer community continues to strive to make it “simple” to create and share Sugar activities and its efforts to create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms.

As a community, we have consensus that Sugar and Sugar activities should be freely and readily available to learners everywhere. This would suggest that the developer community continues to strive to make it “simple” to create and share Sugar activities and its efforts to create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms.

But what is Sugar? At one level, Sugar is an API that provides a unified framework for activity developers to support collaboration, reflection, and sharing in their programs. But those features were chosen with a purpose: to encourage learners to engage in authentic problem-solving and a critical dialogue about whatever problem in which they are engaged. This engaged, learners will develop skills that help them in all aspects of life.

But what is Sugar? At one level, Sugar is an API that provides a unified framework for activity developers to support collaboration, reflection, and sharing in their programs. But those features were chosen with a purpose: to encourage learners to engage in authentic problem-solving and a critical dialogue about whatever problem in which they are engaged. Thus engaged, learners will develop skills that help them in all aspects of life.

Sometimes that dialog is with your peers, sometimes it is with a teacher or mentor. Sometimes it is open-ended and sometimes it is within the context of structured instruction. In every case, it involves expressing, debugging, critiquing, and reflecting. In every case, it is enhanced by "the hard things to learn", Alan Kay's "non-universals", e.g., reading and writing; deductive abstract mathematics; model-based science; etc.  

Sometimes that dialog is with your peers, sometimes it is with a teacher or mentor. Sometimes it is open-ended and sometimes it is within the context of structured instruction. In every case, it involves expressing, debugging, critiquing, and reflecting. In every case, it is enhanced by "the hard things to learn", Alan Kay's "non-universals", e.g., reading and writing; deductive abstract mathematics; model-based science; etc.