from hobby to passion: one laptop per child
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Presentation at the San Francisco State University Faculty Retreat on Jan 22, 2009.TRANSCRIPT
from hobby to passion: one laptop per child - Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
One Laptop Per Child
Presentation:Faculty Retreat
SFSU Downtown Campus
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorInformation Systems DepartmentSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USA
Creative commons licensehttp://creativecommons.org/
From hobby to passion
OLPC Mission: two videos
Principles and Child Empowerment– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw
The XO Laptop, design for learning– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM
me
July 2007
Somebody is finally thinking of the
children!
The Prophet
Children
Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts.For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
-kahlil gibran
A different generation...
School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima
Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern ThailandSee http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Ethopia
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/
Cameroonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set-72157611290673682/
Solomon Islandshttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
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school...to go
http://laptopgiving.org/en/software-and-interface.php
Journal
Activities
● Write– A simple word processor
● Chat– Similar to Google Talk
● Browse– Firefox-based
● Record– stills and video
More activities... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
One forward, One right
An interesting way to draw a circle in TurtleArt
One step forward, wait for one second,
one degree to the right, repeat 360 times
The wait allows you to see the turtle draw
the circle slowly
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art
OLPC XO-1
XO Board
Hand Crank Charger
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
Solar Panel
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels
5 Watt/14Volt panel
Mesh Networking
● Mesh does not require central hub-like infrastructure
● Wireless mesh works even when the computer sleeps
Based on an early draft of IEEE 802.11s
FOSS: Free and Open Source
● When the project started FOSS was the only option that was flexible enough for this project
● No vendor lock-in on formats● No royalties on redistribution● No discrimination based on fields of endeavor● Scalable global model for software and content
Languages
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n
Approx. 90+ languages
Tutorial:http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
Translate:https://dev.laptop.org/translate/
Activities, Not Applications
● There are no software applications. The laptop focuses children around "activities."
● Activities are distinct from applications in their focus —collaboration and expression– Abiword becomes Write
– Firefox becomes Browse
Presence
● Everyone has the potential for being both a learner and a teacher.
● Employs a mesh network that interconnects all laptops within range.– Telepathy framework
● Telepathy-gabble for using a Jabber server across the Internet
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telepathy_Gabble ● Telepathy-salut for p2p/mesh collaboration
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telepathy-salut
Tools of Expression
● The laptop is a "thing to think with"● Principle of "learning through doing"● Constructivist learning
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructivism
A sidenote...
● Remember seeing this in iLearn?
Interesting facts:
ilearn is based on Moodle. From Moodle's site:
Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a world-wide, ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
India
Resident artist!
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Khairat Photos
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40064/
Bhagmalpur project
● Location:● Village: Bhagmalpur● District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh● Railway Station: Shahganj● Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh
● School: ● Classes: 1 to 8 class● Children: 1087● Teachers: 11● Internet: none● Computers: none
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur
Electricity and Internet Access● Unreliable grid
– Some times it works...
– ...mostly it doesn't
● Limited electricity– Scheduled breaks
– Battery inverters
● Internet access is expensive– Offline Moodle and Wikislice will be very important
– Offline content will be critical to the project's success (currently an undersold point).
Under a tree model
Mesh “under a tree” model.See slide 7 at http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a3/Country_Technical_Support.pdf
Bhagmalpur photos
Bhagmalpur Schoolhttp://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/
Bhagmalpur Villagehttp://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/
Language Diversity
● India: 28 states and 7 union territories– The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages
1. Assamese2. Bengali3. Bodo4. Dogri5. Gujarati6. Hindi7. Kannada8. Kashmiri
9. Konkani10. Maithili11. Malayalam12. Manipuri13. Marathi14. Nepali15. Oriya16. Punjabi
17. Sanskrit 18. Santhali 19. Sindhi 20. Tamil 21. Telugu 22. Urdu
Jamaica
OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
OLPC-SF resident expert
OLPC-SF and SF State University
In the quad...
On the student union...
OLPC-SF at SFSU DTC
OLPC-SF and SF State University
● Meets once a month at SFSU DTC.
– See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
● IMSA helps with organizing meetings, donation drives, translation jams
– http://imsa.sfsu.edu/
● Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair Center
– See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair
● OLPC “course” on iLearn. Drop me a note to join: [email protected]
● Internships?
● Volunteers?
● Course projects?
● More...
How can you help?
● Educators
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators ● Translators
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization
– http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 ● Developers
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer ● Getting involved
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC ● Sugar
– http://sugarlabs.org
Contributor Program
● OLPC Contributor Program is designed to get you a XO laptop in exchange for contribution. The info you will need for applying:
● Project● Propose● Other contributors● Audience or impact● Brief description● Relevant experience & other projects● Contact information● # of XOs needed, and their use
Apply at: http://projectdb.olpc.at/
Mailing lists
● Educators
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators ● Software Developers
– General development● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
– Sugar UI● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
All mailing lists are at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/
Community lists
● Everyone
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open● OLPC San Francisco
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
you
participate
free, open, creative, meritocratic, peer-reviewed, educational, innovative
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. --mohandas k. gandhi
meritocracy rules!
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