How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar

Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by rraghur on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:55AM (#16764412)

You make do with what you have :).... However, instead of teaching word processing and such (office s/w)... how about teaching kids that it's just a machine and you can make it do your bidding..

I remember starting with GW BASIC when I was 10 or so and the first 'graphic' program was an analog clock on a 80x40 CRT console, felt like I could build anything with it..

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by icebraining on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:10AM (#16764526)

The authors agree! Sugar (the environment of these laptops) comes with an easy-to-learn multimedia programming environment (Scratch), a simple Python IDE (Pippy), a graphical editor for acustic and electric circuits (TamTam SynthLab) and an authoring tool with programmable behaviours (EToys).

http://laptop.org/en/laptop/software/activities.shtml

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by teaman2000 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:22AM (#16764621)

I got my start with Logo (which I think is a direct ancestor of Scratch) from MIT

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