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History and Development Designing for Learning Deployments Results so far What's Next:
Tablets & OLPC Academy
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
Over 2 million children and teachers in 42 countries use XO in education
Education
Community
Society
Every child deserves the chance to learn.
Children learn best when they are active -- exploring, collaborating, & expressing themselves.
Laptops can enable this active style of learning and transform education.
The Vision
MIT Media Lab
• A team of educators and engineers
• Convergence of technology, pedagogy, education policy
• Focus on solutions for the hardest environments
2005: Announcement of 'One Laptop per Child’initiative with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
From Theory to Reality
HOW: • Minimal Marketing, Distribution• Large Purchases• Linux only• Reduce display cost
Gross Breakdown in Laptop Costs, 2006
Display Sales Marketing
Distribution Windows Support
OLPC Proposal$100 Laptop Cost 2005
Display
x
Getting to the Lowest Price
2006: Founding Members
MOMA- NYC
DESIGNING FOR LEARNING
Objectives:
Support creativity and project-based learning;
Teach children to explore and hack their own tools
OLPC's Five Principles
Sugar Educational Software
Math
Art
Music
Language skills
Programming
+300 Activities
Sugar Network
Educational Origins
Jean Piaget Seymour Papert
Learning by Doing
Robotics via the XO laptop:Butiabot, LEGO WeDo
• Creativity
• Curiosity
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking & problem solving
XOs can be solar-powered where there is no reliable source of electricity
The transflective screen is crisp in bright sunlight, can run without a backlight
Usable anywhere
OLPC DEPLOYMENTS
2.5 million XOs worldwide2.5 million XOs worldwide
Uruguay
•The first country with one laptop per child and wifi in every school and home.600,000 children and teachers (grades 1-10)
•A social transformation project: more enrollment, less violence.
Uruguay: National pride
Perú
• 900,000 XOs in primary and secondary schools
• Challenging deployment due to geography and cultural diversity
• Small remote communities with limited electricity
Perú: Commitment
Argentina
•60,000 XOs in La Rioja
•Project developed by the provincial government
•Complete saturation
•Effort to bring Internet to the whole province
Paraguay
•9,000 children across Paraguay
•Supported by a dedicated national NGO, ParaguayEduca
•SWIFT donated 3,500+ Xos to children in Caacupe
•Agreements with hydroelectric providers to improve regional electricity
Nicaragua
• 30,000 XOs distributed by the Zamora-Terán Foundation • Support from public and private companies• Support from other countries (Denmark)
Rwanda
120,000 children so far, part of Rwanda 2020 vision for universal computer access
•An OLPC Regional Learning Center since 2009
•'Feeding mind and body' – partnership with World Food Program to distribute food and laptops
Nigeria
• 8,000 XOs deployed by Schlumberger Seed Program • First deployment in Africa (2007)• First patent troll lawsuit (2008) • Ongoing support from private partners• Currently expanding with support of local municipalities
Canada
• Alliance with the Belinda Stronach Foundation
• 5,000 students and teachers across 12 First Nation communities
Source: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Canada: Backgrounder programs
US: Miami, Charlotte
• Alliance with the Knight Foundation and TFA to reach 500 children in Liberty City, Miami.
• A similar partnership this year helping 2000 children in Charlotte, NC
Deployment strategies
Develop Community Awareness • Educate population on program benefits and XO functionality• Develop social inclusion campaigns to achieve local support• Launch training programs to promote XO usage, including teachers
Government ownership• Exploratory mission to gauge interest of host government and key stakeholders• Based on the above, work with government and key stakeholders to develop a deployment strategy
along the following lines
A
B
Customize XO platform to address local needs • Meet with officials from the minister of education to align on curriculum requirements• Develop customized applications• Digitize textbooks, perform translations
C
Deployment strategies II
Develop infrastructure • Provide advisory/ support for government in development of infrastructure
(Electrical, IT, network management)• Local capacity building (inventory management, logistics, distribution, maintenance, financial tracking) • Development of Internet access and connectivity infrastructure
Train the core team • Government to select 'Core Team' for execution of local program (IT expertise, etc)• Train core team in all learning and technical elements of the product and program• Train a set of local trainers who will be sent throughout the country
D
E
Monitoring & Evaluation • Initial field assessment baseline study• Monitor initial program roll out; evaluate social, academic impacts annually
F
Project Components
Child and FamilyChild and Family
ParticipationParticipation
Human DignityHuman Dignity
Poverty EradicationPoverty Eradication
Individual EmpowermentIndividual Empowerment
Social InclusionSocial Inclusion
Entrepreneurship
Digital Inclusion
OLPC
Education
IMPACT & RESULTS
Supporting UN Millenium Development Goals
• Development beyond economic growth: combating social exclusion.
• One Laptop at a timeOne Laptop per Child
• Enabling equal access to education.• XO programs in Nepal and Pakistan
• Solar power rechargeable• Digital Library: access to 1.6 M books• Knowledge transferred
• OLPC is a Public Private Partnership program worldwide
OLPC Public Partners
OLPC Private Partners
• Direct donations• Software development• Hardware production• Promotional campaigns• Public-private partnerships• Matching donations with
local Governments• Content distribution• Strategic Initiatives• Internship programs
Students exposed to collaborative learningUruguay
Interactive collaborative learning and critical thinking proven to increase a child's intelligence, aptitude
Dramatic reduction in the digital divideUruguay
Children 6 to 11 years with computer access at home, income quintiles. Trends 2008-2009 (%) homes.
Jan - Mar Apr - Jun Jul - Sep Oct - Dec Jan - Mar Apr - Jun Jul - Sep Oct - Dec
2008
2009Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5
Source: Assessment Area Ceibal, DSPE – ANEP / Based on microdata from the Continuous Household Survey 2008 and 2009, the National Statistics Institute (INE).
Cross-generational social skillsUruguay
87% YES – 13% NO 63% YES – 37% NO
Source: Monitoring and Evaluation Area. Plan Ceibal Families National Survey-2009
Improvements in registration and completionNicaragua, 2-year program
Source: Results of impact OLPC project in Nicaragua, evaluation Zamora Teran Foundation 2010
• School registration rate
• Drop-out rate
• Repetition rate
Improved Math and Language scoresNicaragua
How can we ensure that one billion children receive quality education in the next decade?
WHAT'S NEXT?
Literacy: NELL and narrative interfaces
XO learning tablets
Make Your Own Sugar Activities (James Simmons, 2013)
• activities.sugarlabs.org
• lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaeplists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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