[Grassroots-l] Health Jam 2008

[Arjun Sarwal]

>  Why didn't the Health Jam focus on getting folks to help w/ the
>  development of these activities that you described?
>
>  Too many OLPC content projects are characterized by
>  1) Lots of great ideas
>  2) Lack of focus
>  3) Lots of excitement, wiki pages, and e-mails
>  4) Not much output in terms of finished activities or activity bundles.
>
>  Sorry to be blunt but we need to change this.
>

Ideas on getting started with this change ?

(just trying to push the conversation forward in this direction as I
agree with your point to some extent)

best
Arjun


From: Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Grassroots-l] Health Jam 2008
To: Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>
Cc: olpc-open <olpc-open at laptop.org>,   Games for the OLPC
       <games at lists.laptop.org>, grassroots at lists.laptop.org
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>There's no contradiction between activities that are fun, or with
>complex ideas behind them, and those that teach the most basic health
>and survival skills to children.

Teaching basic health and survival skills to kids is actually quite
complex.

EKG's w/ the XO or the VistA healthcare suite are neat apps but not what
is needed by most deployments.

When I refer to "complex" I more precisely mean problems that are
technically interesting but not directly not related to education for
kids ages 6-12, OLPC's primary focus.

Why didn't the Health Jam focus on getting folks to help w/ the
development of these activities that you described?

Too many OLPC content projects are characterized by
1) Lots of great ideas
2) Lack of focus
3) Lots of excitement, wiki pages, and e-mails
4) Not much output in terms of finished activities or activity bundles.

Sorry to be blunt but we need to change this.


On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:47 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
> There's no contradiction between activities that are fun, or with
> complex ideas behind them, and those that teach the most basic health
> and survival skills to children.
>
> There are three health-related games being proposed and worked on at
> the moment that are good examples; all of which could use further
> specific input.  Food Force is closest to having something playable...
> pehaps Muriel and Deepank can say a bit more about its recent status.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Water_Wonders
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Malnutrition
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force
>
> SJ
>


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Arjun Sarwal
Intern, One Laptop per Child
Email: arjun at laptop.org
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