What is the mission of the Squeakland Foundation education team?
Rita:
I see the education team as the people, who know what Etoys is about. We will help children all over the world so that they can easily use Etoys to learn.
We will provide material to help teacher, children, and parents to get started and become fluent using Etoys.
We will organize Squeakfest, attend conferences to spread the word about Etoys.
Marta: I dream with a context where children represent their knowledge through etoys, where children and teacher have so much fluency on etoys and enough access to technology, that, (after teachers lecture) children use etoys to represent what they understood of that subject ( specially in science), how different objects relate to each other. Because this is the real learning, how things work, not limiting to memorization of things' names. In a perfect world we wouldn´t need showcases as examples for teachers to inspire them about what to do with etoys, teachers and children would have enough fluency to use etoys to represent a phenomena just like they use pencil and notebook to draw or to write an essay.