Kids on Stormy Peters

If parents watched math tests like they watch sports

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:53:23 -0700

[caption id=“attachment_2270” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”] Photo by A Healthier Michigan[/caption]

I’ve been watching kids sports for 12 years now and I’ve seem some crazy behavior from parents. Every once in a while, I wonder if there’s some way to channel all this extra energy and support into academics.

What if parents followed their kids’ math tests like they follow their kids’ football games?

Whenever I mention this possibility at a game, parents give me a blank look. No one laughs, no one explores the idea, they just look at me like I don’t get it. Which obviously I don’t.

Use your vacation to do good in exotic locations

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:54:07 -0700

Kids on Computers is planning a trip to the Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico area in June. If you can, please join us! If you can’t, please consider donating to help the labs we’ll be working on.

Most of us will be going down for a week or so. There are travel stipends available for those willing to spend a month helping in the area.

**What could I possibly do to help? **I ask myself this every time I go. Especially since I usually drag my kids along. Here are the things you can help with.

Sugar (the software on OLPC) and my conversation with Walter Bender

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:54:28 -0700

I had a good conversation with Walter Bender, former president of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the founder of Sugar Labs. Sugar is the software that comes on OLPCs. It also comes in some of the Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora and can run on most laptops.

Walter is interested in how Sugar Labs can make Sugar successful. He wants to make Sugar successful because Sugar helps computers be effective in education by providing a user interface for kids that promotes “sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection.” It’s currently used by half a million kids world-wide through OLPCs but there are a lot more kids out there.