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If I may add, as a teacher, the vast numbers of teachers, at least in the US and Russia, that I have encountered, are not sufficiently interested/ skilled/ convinced that the tools you are offering, no matter how 'free and great' they may be will be of any use unless it is super simple. Most teachers are just concerned with getting through the day. To get this project onto the minds of teachers then it must come from parents and students and admins telling teachers that this is what must happen. Teachers, for the most part, are unionized. They DON'T have to do anything once attaining tenure. I've personally offered to many teachers to set up LTSP networks for them and NOT ONE ever accepted the offer though the evidence of superior performance, better cognition and behavior, and superior skill set of the LTSP students versus all the other students was clearly evident. Teachers have no reason to change, and Sugar nor SoaS is going to change that. To get Sugar in a class in the US, at least, is going to come from private schools, and parents who are savvy enough to understand the arcane language of most of this site...

If I may add, as a teacher, the vast numbers of teachers, at least in the US and Russia, that I have encountered, are not sufficiently interested/ skilled/ convinced that the tools you are offering, no matter how 'free and great' they may be will be of any use unless it is super simple. Most teachers are just concerned with getting through the day. To get this project onto the minds of teachers then it must come from parents and students and admins telling teachers that this is what must happen. Teachers, for the most part, are unionized. They DON'T have to do anything once attaining tenure. I've personally offered to many teachers to set up LTSP networks for them and NOT ONE ever accepted the offer though the evidence of superior performance, better cognition and behavior, and superior skill set of the LTSP students versus all the other students was clearly evident. Teachers have no reason to change, and Sugar nor SoaS is going to change that. To get Sugar in a class in the US, at least, is going to come from private schools, and parents who are savvy enough to understand the arcane language of most of this site...

If this project wants deeper acceptance in the community then show that it is CHILD'S PLAY to get it working. 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 or vimeo or something like that so that kids will show other kids how smart 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 by posting their latest success on a publicly available media channel i.e. youtube, vimeo, etc.--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

If this project wants deeper acceptance in the community then show that it is CHILD'S PLAY to get it working. 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.

 

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)

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