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If this project wants deeper acceptance in the community then show that it is CHILD'S PLAY to get it working. Show a kid setting Sugar on a Stick. But even that will get adults to say something like... "Oh, those kids today, I could never do that!" I've heard that, from teachers!
If this project wants deeper acceptance in the community then show that it is CHILD'S PLAY to get it working. Show a kid setting Sugar on a Stick. But even that will get adults to say something like... "Oh, those kids today, I could never do that!" I've heard that, from teachers!
Most importantly, to get Sugar traction in schools, make it easy for kids to publish their genius works via video and etc. Get screencasting as part of nearly every activity. Hook on to youtube's [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html API] or [http://www.vimeo.com/api vimeo's API] or something like that so that kids will show other kids how __cool__ they are... Adults want Sugar because it should make their kids smarter better problem solvers... the trick is to _make kid's want Sugar_ because it will help them maintain their 'cool' factor among their friends. How? By posting their latest SUGAR success on a publicly available media channel i.e. youtube, vimeo, etc.
Most importantly, to get Sugar traction in schools, make it easy for kids to publish their genius works via video and etc. Get screencasting as part of nearly every activity. Hook on to youtube's [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html API] or [http://www.vimeo.com/api vimeo's API] or something like that so that kids will show other kids how __cool__ they are... Adults want Sugar because it should make their kids smarter better problem solvers, more likely to survive the hard world, etc. The real trick is to _make kid's want Sugar_. It can be done a lot of ways but the biggest reason for kids is because it can help them generate/build/maintain/ grow/improve their 'cool' factor among their friends at their schools. How? By posting their latest SUGAR success on a publicly available media channel i.e. youtube, vimeo, etc. for all their very hip and connected friends to see online.
Look at the Youtube videos produced by kids doing their work. It's clearly evident that they are doing the 'hard stuff' of thinking and problem solving because at the end, at least for most, their friends will say, "Cool!". Let's make it easy for kids to get that cool factor... then Sugar will get traction among the very complacent teachers... --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Look at the Youtube videos produced by kids doing their work. It's clearly evident that they are doing the 'hard stuff' of thinking and problem solving because at the end, at least for some/most, their friends will say, "Cool!".
Let's make it easy for kids to get that cool factor using Sugar... then Sugar will get traction among the very complacent teachers... --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
==See also==
==See also==