Sugar Labs—learning software for children

What makes Sugar different?

Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration: Children can write, share books, or make music together with a single mouse-click.
Activities, not applications..
Automatic backup of Activity work; no worrying about files or folders. Sugar’s Journal makes it almost impossible to lose any data.
The Journal records everything you do: It is a place to reflect upon and evaluate your work.
Sugar runs on most computer hardware, including slower machines.
Sugar is free software: It is written in the modern Python language and easily customized.
Sugar is documented by its users: It is easy to use and teachers worldwide have created a wealth of pedagogical materials for it.

What are the benefits of using Sugar?

Hundreds of tools for discovery through exploring, expressing, and sharing: browsing, writing, etc.
Built-in collaboration system: peer-to-peer learning; always-on support; and single-click sharing.
The Journal is a built-in portfolio assessment tool that serves as a forum for discussion between children, parents, and teachers.
A discoverable learning platform: it uses simple means to reach to complex ends.
Designed for local appropriation: it has built-in tools for making changes and improvements and a growing global community of support. 25 languages are currently available.
An emphasis on learning through doing and debugging: more engaged learners are able to tackle authentic problems.
Available in a wide variety of forms: as part of GNU/Linux distributions; LiveCD, LiveUSB; and in a virtual machine.

What are the Sugar advantages?