XO Learning

Madeline,
I had a great time playing with the eToys tutorial yesterday and thinking about how we could accomplish each challenge with only one script. Any time you tell a computer how to do something, you are learning math and some problem solving skills that will be good for you in life as well as school.
I’m […]

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Be on the lookout for the TurtleArt turtle that Madeline sent out into the stratosphere. (Madeline thinks that the turtle is probably in Germany.) We learned today that using the biggest numbers we can think of isn’t always the best idea in a computer.Today we met for our second session. We changed the […]

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Madeline,
As we get started working together, I thought you would enjoy reading what some third graders in Seattle, Washington thought about the XO computer that their teacher, Mr. Ahlness, has brought into their classroom.

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This blog meant to be a place to document our learning about our XO laptops. We’ll share what we’re up to, what we’re learning, and interesting and useful links about the XO and other users of this marvelous device from the One Laptop per Child Foundation.

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