[Squeakland] RE: OLPC News 2007-10-27

Ron Teitelbaum Ron at USMedRec.com
Sat Oct 27 18:44:27 PDT 2007


Hi Bert,

That's terrific!  Very exciting news.  I'd love to hear more details about
what is happening, and more about this "new culture".

Thanks for sending this along!

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Freudenberg
> 
> Interesting report form testing schools:
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> > Date: October 27, 2007 19:53:49  GMT+02:00
> > To: community-news at laptop.org
> > Cc: OLPC Dev <devel at lists.laptop.org>, Sugar Mailing List
> > <sugar at lists.laptop.org>
> > Subject: OLPC News 2007-10-27
> > Reply-To: walter at laptop.org
> >
> > 17. Squeak/Etoys: Marta Voelcker reports that the children at the
> > Luciana de Abreu school in Porto Alegre, Brazil are making great
> > progress with Etoys. "The 11-year olds are using it very frequently,
> > 12-to-14-year olds also increasing it, and first graders (age 7) are
> > starting to use it. They use squeak in the classroom and after school
> > they meet in the garden to talk about and share things made with
> > squeak, it is becoming a culture!" Squeak has been very popular in
> > Ethiopia as well.
> 
> Full news at http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 





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