On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 08:07:06PM -0800, Mike Zabrocki wrote:
> Wow! Nicolas fantastic report. That was a challenge to do.
Thanks :-)
> I hope you managed a convert or two in Africa. My experience with
> computer classes as part of a summer school (in Ghana, Kenya,
> Tanzania and Madagascar) is similar except I never had a wifi
> network and most of my students didn't have regular computer access.
> Most of my students were complete novices to the computer, but
> willing to learn. Installing sage was several steps beyond what we
> tried. I would say that most of the infrastructure that we had
> access to would not support sage (most computers were dated
> pre-python, though I did not have the expertise to make this work).
I could hope for 4-5 that will use Sage in the long run, and 20 that
definitely see the point but will get stuck by lack of infrastructure
and expertise.
But as you said: «if our problem was only network, we were in pretty
good shape to start with». We had a selection of students that were
definitely computer-literate (somehow, the main difficulty was to
prevent them from running to facebook&all and eat up all the bandwidth
whenever the network was working :-) ), even though most did not have
programming experience.
> I think to break the barrier and make a true sage days really
> productive, I think that you would need to partner with some
> organization like OLPC (one laptop per child) or arrange to
> minimize the problems with your hardware.
Well, I have a good contact for that: dad :-) We actually already used
Sage on our home OLPC, although only through a remote Sage server. I
doubt the old models can support running Sage locally, but for the
upcoming models we certainly will have a shot (at least running in a
terminal).
Of course, the real thing would be to integrate a resource-optimized
version of Sage within the Sugar activities. This probably won't be a
priority for OLPC, since their main target population is children of
age 6-12, but as you say we could explore other organizations as well.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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