[Olpc-za] One SimCity Per Child

[Jeff]

http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/11/08/200234.shtml

"Electronic Arts has donated the original 'classic' version of Will  
Wright's popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project.  
SimCity is the epitome of constructionist educational games, and has  
been widely used by educators to unlock and speed-up the  
transformational skills associated with creative thinking. It's also  
been used in the Future City Competition by seventh- and eighth-grade  
students to foster engineering skills and inspire students to explore  
futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. OLPC SimCity is based  
on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted  
to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be  
released under the name "Micropolis", which was SimCity's original  
working title. SJ Klein, director of content for the OLPC, called on  
game developers to create 'frameworks and scripting environments —  
tools with which children themselves could create their own content.'  
The long term agenda of the OLPC SimCity project is to convert  
SimCity into a scriptable Python module, integrate it with the OLPC's  
Sugar user interface and Cairo rendering library. Eventually they  
hope to apply Seymour Papert's and Alan Kay's ideas about  
constructionist education and teaching kids to program."


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-za/attachments/20071109/d80dd3ac/attachment.htm