1. Sugar in the Classroom Gerald Ardito Stephen Jacobs Caroline Meeks NYSCATE 2009

2. What is Sugar? http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_01 From:http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_01 Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with equal opportunity for a quality education. Available in 25 languages, Sugars Activities are used every school day by one-million children in more than forty countries. Originally developed for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook, Sugar runs on most computers. Sugar is free/libre and open-source software. Fromhttp://www.sugarlabs.org / 3. free/libre and open-source software ?

Developed by an open collaborative community, just as Sugar supports collaborative learning

4. Each user has the right to modify and improve. 5. Think of Free Speech, not Free Beer.Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement From:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo From:http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners 6. A Tale of Two Cities from http://www.iaes.org/conferences/future/boston_68/city_info/boston.jpg Boston Croton on Hudson fromhttp://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/images/fig205.jpg 7. A Tale of Two Strategies fromhttp:/wiki.sugarlabs.org Boston Croton on Hudson fromhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/52989811@N00/3220027435/sizes/l/in/set-72157612861201537/ 8. Whats the difference?

Children adopt the technology immediately

• More like iPod/cell phone than computer

9. very little fear of doing something wrong or breaking something.

Ad hoc networking/collaborating

10. Low floor/no ceiling 11. How is it working?

Student Tech Teams

12. Working with teachers 13. Working with students 14. Some great learning experiences New York Boston 15. Lessons learned so far

The direction of learning has changed from a straight line to a ripple.

16. Lessons learned so far

Making stuff is way more powerful than just receiving stuff.

17. Lessons learned so far

The classroom ecology is changing

• Everyone is a teacher, everyone is a learner.

18. Challenges

Technical Challenges

• The basics: imaging machines, burning discs

19. Wireless connectivity

20. School vs. home fromhttp://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/problems.jpg 21. Challenges

Pedagogical Challenges

• Incorporating Sugars tools into existing curricula

22. Time for student and teacher professional development.

fromhttp://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/problems.jpg 23. One Answer, Universities!

Partner with student programmers and their professors

24. Some programs fostering humanitarian projects to motivate students Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 8 August 2009 25. OLPC Development Class

Professor earned NYS provisional K-12 certification

26. Class works with local community and Sugar LabsMath4 Team 27. Introduces students to topics in child development, educational software development, lesson plan writing 28. Leads to Co-Ops to continue project development 29. More University Resources

RIT Syllabus is available here as draft.Full curriculum will be available by 6/10

30. Access to numerous other professors and materials 31. Whats next? fromhttp://blog.northstarmanifesto.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/the-future.jpg 32.

Contacts

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33. [email_address] 34. [email_address] Hands-On RIT booth Monday 10am-5pm Tuesday 8:30am-Noon