[Educators] Educators Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3

Fri Jul 19 01:59:05 EDT 2013

how can I procure an XO tablet for education purposes and localisation?. I
live in Ghana

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:00 AM, <educators-request at lists.laptop.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: OLPC and Physics and astronomy??? (Edward Cherlin)
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> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:41:33 -0400
> From: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> To: Educators and OLPC <educators at lists.laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: [Educators] OLPC and Physics and astronomy???
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> Alan Kay has talked about how and why to do this using Etoys or
> Scratch. You can take videos on the XO, import and dissect them with
> the software, and compare the results with models built in any of the
> implementations of Turtle Art, including the one in Etoys. SocialCalc
> should work for data analysis.
>
> We could ask about turning Tracker into a Sugar Activity. Maybe James
> Simmons can tell us how to go about it.
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > I'm enrolled in an online Physics course from Georgia Tech that uses
> > "Tracker" (http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/)* to help us do our
> > labs. We import videos (mostly ones we take) of objects in motion and
> use it
> > to analyze and give us results. It is pretty complex, but maybe someone
> in
> > Sugar Labs could figure out a way to make a Sugar equivalent that would
> let
> > students import videos made in Record.
> >
> > We also do further analysis in a spreadsheet (Google Sheets will work),
> but
> > that might be too much of a stretch.
> >
> > Caryl
> > * Cabrillo College is a community college near Santa Cruz, CA
> >
> >> From: THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au
> >> To: educators at lists.laptop.org
> >> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:03:29 +0000
> >> Subject: Re: [Educators] OLPC and astronomy
> >>
> >> This weekend I had an out of this world experience. The centre of Milky
> >> Way passed right over the top of me. Out away from the city lights I was
> >> able to see the clusters and nebulae with the naked eye. Focus on the
> dust
> >> lanes instead of the glow makes it all leap into 3D. Who needs a
> telescope?
> >> Even my 11.5 degree wide angle binoculars were no match for the naked
> eye.
> >> That's the experience I'd like to share. The irony is that the more
> remote
> >> the Southern Hemisphere location the better the view. But Northerners
> have
> >> the advantage when it comes to M31. The big visual challenge becomes
> seeing
> >> our own Local Group.
> >>
> >> Indeed, if it were possible in some alternative physics to go into
> >> intergalactic space, wouldn't that be precisely what we'd see with a
> Dobson?
> >> .. ie . surrounded by nothing but faint ghostly glows of galaxies, with
> only
> >> the nearest one actually discernible to the naked eye. A Dobson
> telescope is
> >> a spacecraft that can take us there. And a dark sky site beats any
> >> telescope.
> >>
> >> We lump space travel, cosmology, physics and everything else into
> >> astronomy. Kids like colour and movement so are often disappointed with
> the
> >> static views of the real thing. I queued up for hours to get a glimpse
> of
> >> Mars through Sydney Observatory and Astronomy Club telescopes on nearest
> >> approach only to find that the view from my own vintage C-5 from
> mid-city
> >> was pretty similar.
> >>
> >> So I think there is a huge amount of strategic thinking to do about what
> >> learning/experience objectives we should be seeking.
> >>
> >> Tom Benjamin
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org
> >> [mailto:educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Edward Cherlin
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 9 July 2013 5:34 AM
> >> To: Educators and OLPC
> >> Subject: Re: [Educators] OLPC and astronomy
> >>
> >> I am sorry to take so long in replying.
> >>
> >> In addition to the astronomy software for OLPC XOs (such as Star Chart,
> >> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4300 ) and the
> possibility
> >> of attaching a telescope, we would like to develop interactive learning
> >> materials on every aspect of science, the history of scientific
> discovery,
> >> scientific method, and the tools of science, such as data acquisition,
> >> modeling, and data analysis. We have conventional XO and Sugar
> materials at
> >> FLOSS Manuals (http://en.flossmanuals.net/, including Make your own
> sugar
> >> activities and Etoys Reference Manual, where I am a contributor), and
> we are
> >> looking into the use of HTML5 (discussion on the Sugar-Devel mailing
> list,
> >> where you would be welcome), or possibly EPUB3, for integrating software
> >> into the learning process. Etoys Book and Stack constructions, based on
> >> Apple's Hypercard, are also options being discussed on various Squeak
> >> mailing lists. The Sugar Labs program that I manage, Replacing
> Textbooks, is
> >> dedicated to those ideas and others of their kind.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
> >>
> >> We could discuss a range of topics related to astronomy at every age
> >> level, with many possibilities for presentation. Here is one on Galilean
> >> gravity, based on ideas from Alan Kay, in a Libre Office document file.
> (I
> >> don't do Windows. ^_^)
> >>
> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt
> >>
> >> I am a big fan of Astronomy Picture of the Day, and of its Spanish
> >> translation, Observatorio: Una imagen diaria del Universo
> >> (http://observatorio.info/ ). Hoy hay nombres nuevos por los sat?lites
> de
> >> Pluton, descubiertos en 2011 y 2012 por el Telescopio Espacial Hubble.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jos? Raeiro <zeraeiro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I studied astrophysics and I would like to help with whatever I can.
> >> > I'm also a science educator and gave several talks, courses, etc. I
> >> > taught a 5-years course at the Popular University of Porto.
> >> >
> >> > Is there any astronomy tool in the standard software pack that comes
> >> > with OLCP?
> >> >
> >> > I can help on the creation of content or I can work together with
> >> > coders to produce an astronomic software tool.
> >> >
> >> > I believe a planetarium would be essential to this project, since most
> >> > of the target-public live in dark skies.
> >> >
> >> > I would also like to discuss the creation of a $20 telescope in the
> >> > same philosophy of OLPC.
> >> >
> >> > Kind Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Jos? Raeiro
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