Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education. Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computing and the Internet. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and their teachers use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a community project; it is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.
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Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration.Children write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with ease. |
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There are no files, folders, or applications.The basic unit of interaction is an activity; it includes an application, data, and a history of the interaction that can be used to resume the activity at any time. |
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Everything is saved automatically.Our goal is to make it almost impossible to lose any data. |
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A Journal is used for accessing data.The Journal is a diary of things that you make and actions you take; it is a place to reflect upon your work. |
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Sugar is available on many GNU/Linux distributions.Sugar is supported by and easily installed on Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. |
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Sugar is free software.Sugar is licensed under GPL; updates will always respect the freedom of its users. |
| http://www.sugarlabs.org/ |