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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!".
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)
Let's make it easy for kids to get that cool factor using Sugar... then Sugar will get traction among the very complacent teachers...
===in the meantime make it easy for the motivated===
A [http://wubi-installer.org/ wubi] like dual boot option at startup with a simple downloader tool that pulls the needed Sugar parts onto the harddrive so that those who have old Windows machines can pull a Wubi like Sugar install and walk away while it does its thing... SoaS is a great idea but way too labor intensive for anyone thinking big like 30+ machines. And, as noted before, USB sticks are notoriously temperamental and prone to corruption. I can hear the students now... my USB stick ate my homework... and then the parents start calling... and the administrators get involved... the ideal school computer set up <B>minimizes</b> variables. Go run one for awhile, you'll know what I'm talking about. Noone willingly creates more for themselves unless they see it saves gobs of energy or time elsewhere... SoaS doesn't offer that yet, IMHO.
--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
==See also==
==See also==