[sugar] Education?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 10, 2007, at 19:54 , Noah Kantrowitz wrote:

> Once again I didn't send this to the list. Whoops.
>
> Alan Kay wrote:
>> If "Children First!" is really the goal here, then we must spend most
>> of our energies trying to make the childrens' environments more
>> conducive to creative learning of powerful ideas.
>>
> A bigger question than EToys vs. $REPLACEMENT to me is if whatever the
> end solution will be able to support some of the XO services, like the
> journal or multiple user sessions?

Of course.

> My understanding of the current
> bundle is that it just spawns a nearly stock copy of Squeak/EToys from
> the activity script.

Well, until a week ago the journal has been non-existent, and what is  
there right now is a demo hack. There is work underway to renovate  
the etoys project saving/loading logic, that you can start the  
activity with a specific project, and we will make sure that when you  
open two etoys projects, only one copy of Squeak will actually be  
spawned, etc.

> If this is still the case, it might take some major
> monkeying to interface things.

Not if you know what you're doing ;-)

- Bert -