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|align=right valign=top|13 Apr 2011||'''framablog''' – [http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/04/13/sugar-labs-education-walter-bender L'expérience Sugar Labs préfigure-t-elle une révolution éducative du XXIe siècle?] | |align=right valign=top|13 Apr 2011||'''framablog''' – [http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/04/13/sugar-labs-education-walter-bender L'expérience Sugar Labs préfigure-t-elle une révolution éducative du XXIe siècle?] | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 25 July 2011
What's new
This page is updated each week (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list, blogged at walterbender.org, and archived here.) If you would like to contribute, please send email to walter at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit planet.sugarlabs.org.)
Sugar Digest
1. The big news this week is Daniel Drake's announcement that OLPC has released V11.2.0 for the XO 1.0 and XO 1.5 hardware. This is a significant release in that it pulls in many of the newer Sugar features into an official OLPC build for the first time. Congratulations to Daniel and all of the contributors and testers who helped to get these bits released.
Details of new features, known issues, and how to download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes.
2. I spent last week in Argentina. I had a chance to get back to La Rioja and connect with the tech team there and we shared ideas about current and future plans for Sugar. (Alas, it was a holiday week, so I couldn't get to any schools in order to get direct feedback from teachers.) They are doing well, but are looking for more ways to make connections to teachers; we kicked around the idea of setting up Saturday clubs—a la Caacupe—to directly engage the kids in programming Etoys, Scratch, and Turtle Art.
3. While touring Argentina, I spoke with numerous ministries of education. In almost every conversation, we got around to discussing the acronym du jour, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Any program that hopes to find its way into classrooms—from Buenos Aires to Boston—needs to pay lip-service to STEM. While STEM is less debilitating than its predecessor, “21st Century Skills”, it is still very narrow in its scope and vision. But in the case of STEM I see an opportunity. If we add the Arts to STEM, we get STEAM. Now that could be hot!
4. There has been a discussion on Sugar-Devel about a pulse sensor built for Arduino. It was observed that using the microphone-input port on the XO would let one do something similar using Sugar. Guzman Trindad has built a simple sensor using an LED, a light sensor, and a clothespin to do exactly that. See his video using (of course) Turtle Blocks.
5. Congratulations to Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru, the top three winners in the Copa America. Again there seems to be a high correlation between Sugar and success in international football. Also, congratulations to the Slipstream/Garmin/Cevelo cycling team on winning the Tour de France 2011. Slipstream is the pro team with which the Sugar Labs/Chipolte U23 team is also affiliated.
Tech Talk
6. Martin Langhoff has announced the XO 1.75 contributor's program.
7. Raul Gutierrez Segales has been making headway on the "no Hippo" branch of Sugar and Sugar Toolkit. You can track the progress at
http://git.sugarlabs.org/~walter/sugar/no-hippo-sugar
and
http://git.sugarlabs.org/~walter/sugar-toolkit/no-hippo-toolkit
Sugar Labs
Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past few weeks of discussion on the IAEP mailing list.
2011 July 16th–July 22nd (45 emails)
2011 July 9th–July 15th (63 emails)
Visit our planet for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments.
Community News archive
An archive of this digest is available.
Planet
The Sugar Labs Planet is found here.
