Yes, Scratch is another Squeak based authoring system for young people.
MIT did a nice job with it. It is aimed at teenagers and is more of a
productivity tool than an educational authoring environment.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 02:18 AM 5/21/2007, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
For telecenters, I would take a
look to Scratch (
http://scratch.mit.edu/ ), even if
at their homepage they only speak about windows and macintosh, it works
under linux too (only some issues with the midi support are still
remaining, but the rest of the tool works ok). I think Scratch is
specially thought for places as telecenters.
Regards
2007/5/21, Marta Voelcker
<
marta@pensamentodigital.org.br>:
- Dear Squeakers,
- As one of the researchers from the University that is running the
OLPC pilot project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I was introduced to squeak,
last February, when I could bring an XO home during a weekend.
- But now, my work is related to promote capacity building
to the staff of organizations that run TELECENTERS.
- Telecenters, in Brazil, are rooms with an average of 12
computers(PCs) with access to Internet inside NGOs or grassroots
organizations, located in low-income communities in Brazil.
- I am the coordinator of a Foundation that promotes capacity building
to the staff of these organizations, to implement curses in telecenters.
Our methodology has the same line of constructionism...
- We have been working "IT Basic knowledge" through
project-based learning, now we want to start using Squeak.
- In Brazil, schools work on shifts. Children go to school in the
morning (8:00 to 12:00) or in the afternoon (2:00 to 18:00). If the child
goes in the morning, during the afternoon he or she might get a vacancy
in an after school program offered by an NGO or grassroots organization,
or religious organization. Government helps supporting these
organizations to implement this after school programs. Those
organizations are frequently receiving refurbished computers and building
partnerships to create their telecenter. Than, they come to us, asking
for guidance about what to do with the telecenter.
- So, we have telecenters as informal educational environment to work
with children and teenagers. We don't need to relate our work to school
curriculum, we can promote any kind of curses, workshop, guided
playtime... any thing!
- We have about 45 of these NGOs equipped with telecenters in Porto
Alegre, already working with us (from a total of 150 NGOs partners from
other cities).
- Our motivation is strongly related to develop programming skills on
children and teenagers.
- We are thinking about to start with a group of age around 10 and
another group around 15. We would choose one telecenter and plan
to work there ( instead of train their staff).
- But what would we teach? Should we keep thinking in project-based
learning? When we use other software we frequently start working
with identity construction, and after some exploration of the
software, the group starts a project...
- But to understand the basis of squeak, the "drive a car "
project seems so important!!!
- Well, sorry guys to be so long in this Sunday night! Seems that to
write to you already made some goals clear to me!
- Ideas, experiences and suggestions are welcome!
- regards,
- Marta Voelcker
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