[OLPC library] Lesson plans needed (was Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features (Greg Smith))

[Bryan Berry]

>This is Alan Kay's domain, among others.

Alan may have expertise in this area but there also lots great working
teachers that know as much or more about constructionism in practice as
its academic icons. They are the folks to work w/.

>> 2) The parents don't see the learning activities as anything more
than
>> games.

>Has anybody taught any of the programming language tutorials to the
>children?

All the teaching in the schools will have to be done by the teachers at
the schools. We don't want to just drop in a special teacher for a week.
We have to make this part of the system. The way to do this is to train
the existing teachers and tie the programming lessons to the national
curriculum. This is a time-consuming process and we are working on it.

Schools are not 'greenfields' where we can start work from a blank
slate. We have to work w/ what we have.

Also, parents won't see EToys as any more serious than E-Paath, and
perhaps less so. it will take time to change their perceptions.