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Thank you great Squeakers,

We are starting a different school that runs by having the students
create what they use and consume. We are looking at Brazil and India
as our first pilot sites. Working with those who other wise do not get
access.  We have a good group of young poeple that are working with us
with the idea that we can change to world by building: brains with
board games; brawn with laser tag: material and mental wealth with
robotics.

We are not looking to prep these students to work for someone else.
They will continue to work for themselves with new sources of energy
and local materials. There have been several operations that have
operated for over 30 year with this model. The bare foot college is one.

We are using the advancement in energy to take it to the next level  
which will bring us to an opportunity for learning programing. we have  
millions to work with since more than 4 billion people still live on  
less than a $1000 a year.

Will keep you posted.

Chuck Smith

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Chuck Smith wrote:

> We are starting a different school that runs by having the students
> create what they use and consume.

This reminds me of the choice Victorian co-operators made to select
education as one of the key Rochdale Principles.

> We are using the advancement in energy to take it to the next level which
> will bring us to an opportunity for learning programing.

You are probably already aware that the Smalltalk community has been
heavily involved in programming education, for example:
Squeak Etoys
Scratch and Build Your Own Blocks
Alice (also built in Java)
Bots Inc (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/botsinc)

Also, you may be interested in following these new UK-based communities:
http://codingforkids.org/
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/

Hope that helps, David
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Where is your school located? I have spent years struggling to get my education project to critical mass. Closest thing so far is OLPC but they focus on younger children in third world countries. My idea is to reach high school students to be self sufficient. They make their own slate computers and run the school network. These days I see too much corporate influence. Off the shelf tablets, commercial software. Little change -- improvement -- in teaching methods.

Gary Dunn
Open Slate Project
http://openslate.org

On Dec 14, 2011 4:58 AM, "David Corking" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Chuck Smith wrote:

> We are starting a different school that runs by having the students
> create w...

This reminds me of the choice Victorian co-operators made to select
education as one of the key Rochdale Principles.

> We are using the advancement in energy to take it to the next level which
> will bring us to an o...

You are probably already aware that the Smalltalk community has been
heavily involved in programming education, for example:
Squeak Etoys
Scratch and Build Your Own Blocks
Alice (also built in Java)
Bots Inc (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/botsinc)

Also, you may be interested in following these new UK-based communities:
http://codingforkids.org/
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/

Hope that helps, David

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Take a look at this also
http://www.oopgames.com/freecad/

Karl



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