Presentation on Sugar and OLPC in two US elementary schools in Croton-on-Hudson in New York and Boston and an RIT course on developing for OLPC and on Open Source and HFOSS. Presented at New York State Computer and Technology Educators association's annual conference 2009

1. Sugar in the Classroom Gerald Ardito Stephen Jacobs Caroline Meeks NYSCATE 2009

2. What is Sugar? http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_01 From: http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_01 “ Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with equal opportunity for a quality education. Available in 25 languages, Sugar’s Activities are used every school day by one-million children in more than forty countries. Originally developed for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook, Sugar runs on most computers. Sugar is free/libre and open-source software.” From http://www.sugarlabs.org /

4. Each user has the right to modify and improve.

5. Think of “Free Speech,” not “Free Beer.” Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement From: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo From: http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners

6. A Tale of Two Cities from http://www.iaes.org/conferences/future/boston_68/city_info/boston.jpg Boston Croton on Hudson from http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/images/fig205.jpg

7. A Tale of Two Strategies from http:/wiki.sugarlabs.org Boston Croton on Hudson from http://www.flickr.com/photos/52989811@N00/3220027435/sizes/l/in/set-72157612861201537/

10. Low floor/no ceiling

12. Working with teachers

13. Working with students

14. Some great learning experiences New York Boston

19. Wireless connectivity

20. School vs. home from http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/problems.jpg

22. Time for student and teacher professional development. from http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/problems.jpg

24. Some programs fostering “humanitarian” projects to motivate students Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 8 August 2009

26. Class works with local community and Sugar Labs’ “Math4 Team”

27. Introduces students to topics in child development, educational software development, lesson plan writing

28. Leads to Co-Ops to continue project development

30. Access to numerous other professors and materials

31. What’s next? from http://blog.northstarmanifesto.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/the-future.jpg

33. [email_address]

34. [email_address] Hands-On RIT booth Monday 10am-5pm Tuesday 8:30am-Noon