== Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with "los scratcheros" == {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | The Scratcheros: Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} Today I spent some time with a boy of Caacupe who has impressed me and the educators very much with his original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not a school subject, these kids are learning it on their own. * **What's your name?** * Benedicto * **How old are you?** * 12 * **How did you learn Scratch?** * We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does. * **What job would you like to do when you're done with school?** * Software engineer * **Ah, like me! Do you like Turtle Art? What can you do with it?** * Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes. * **How much time do you spend with your laptop every day?** * A few hours. * **Nobody is teaching you, yeah? You're learning everything on your own?** * No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together. * **What other activities do you like besides Scatch and Turtle Art?** * //Ablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox). * **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?** * Very well! Then we got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes. We also updated Benedicto's laptop to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | build 65]], containing the latest version of the Sugar 0.84 branch. Benedicto had been previously testing my previous build 45, which contained some networking bugs. == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica == Today I gave an opening talk at the [[http://www.pol.una.py/ | Facultad Politecnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asuncion]]. The title was "//Empoderar a los estudiantes con el Software Libre//" (//Empowering students with Free Software//). * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.odp | Spanish, OpenDocument]] * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf | Spanish, PDF]] * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v5-en.odp | English, OpenDocument]] (older version with fewer slides and some factual errors) {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00043.jpg | maxwidth=640 }} {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/todos-son-maestros-y-alumnos.jpg | maxwidth=640 | Everyone is a learner and a techer}} {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/la-base-pedagogica-de-sugar.jpg | maxwidth=640 | The pedagogical base of Sugar}} {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00048.jpg | maxwidth=640 }} See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica | all the photos ]] in my Codew'z photostream. Note: I'm not really affiliated with MIT and I'm not even an engineer, but it's a flattering mistake ;-)