One Laptop Per Child

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• One Laptop Per Child
• An Education project for the poorest children of
  the world
• It's an education project, not a laptop
  project.
• Nicholas Negroponte

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Mission

• To create educational opportunities for the
  world's poorest children by providing each child
  with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected
  laptop with content and software designed for
  collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

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• Twobillion children in the developing world are
  inadequately educated, or receive no education at
  all. One in three does not complete the fifth
  grade.
• The individual and societal consequences of this
  chronic global crisis poverty spiral
• Governments struggle and lacks the tools to
  resolve this problem of the digital divide
• Standing still is a reliable recipe for going
  backward

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It is time to rethink this equation

• developing countries allocate to education lt 20
  per year per pupil
• compared to 7500 in the U.S.even a doubled or
  redoubled would not get the job done
• incremental increase of building more schools,
  more teachers, buying more books and equipment
  will not be sufficient

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• Our answer to that challenge is the XO laptop, a
  children's machine designed for learning
  learning
• XO embodies the theories of constructionism first
  developed by MIT Media Lab Professor Seymour
  Papert in the 1960s, and later elaborated upon by
  Alan Kay
• constructionism emphasizes learning learning as
  the fundamental educational experience
• XO laptop designed to allow children to think
  about thinking, in ways that are otherwise
  impossible
• Using it as window to the world, and a highly
  programmable tool for exploring it, children in
  emerging nations will be opened to both
  illimitable knowledge and to their own creative
  and problem-solving potential.

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XO unlike any laptop ever built
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• Creates own mesh network - children and their
  teachers and families -will be connected both to
  one another and to the Internet
• Two display modes a transmissive, full-color
  mode, and a reflective black and white mode that
  is sunlight readable
• very little power 0.2 2W
• free and open-source software unlimited supply
  of contents and software upgrades
• Water-proof, dust proof, drop proof

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Benefits

• Learning is our main goal we do not focus on
  computer literacy
• Young children do not need to learn about IT
• We believe children learn best through doing
• OLPC puts an emphasis on software tools for
  exploring and expressing, rather than instruction
• engaging children in constructing knowledge based
  upon their personal interests
• providing them tools for sharing and critiquing
  these constructions will lead them to become
  learners and teachers

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interface

• user-interface tailored to young children
  learning
• Graphical User Interface shows fellow learners
  and teachers as collaborators and connecting them
  to their activities

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exploring
The laptop gives learners opportunities they have
not had before. Tools such as a Web browser, rich
media player, and e-book reader bring into
reach domains of knowledge that are otherwise
difficult-or impossible-for children to access.
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expressing

• The laptop helps children build upon their active
  interest in the world around them to engage with
  powerful ideas.
• Tools for writing, composing, simulating,
  expressing, constructing, designing, modeling,
  imagining, creating, critiquing, debugging, and
  collaborating enable children to become positive,
  contributing members of their communities.

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learning

• The laptop takes learners beyond instruction.
  They are actively engaged in a process of
  learning through doing.
• Children also learn by teaching, actively
  assisting other learners.

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resources

• The laptop not only delivers the world to
  children, but also brings the best practices of
  children and their teachers to the world. Each
  school represents a learning hub a node in a
  globally shared resource for learning.

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Going forward

• The XO laptops started to roll out in quantities
  from the beginning of this year and we are
  implementing learning programs in a number of
  countries already.
• With the establishment of OLPC Asia Pacific, a
  non-profit organisation being established in Hong
  Kong, we plan to take our mission to China and
  other parts of Asia Pacific to reach the most
  needy children in these countries.

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• we are mindful that there are many differences in
  the culture and education systems in this part of
  the world.
• need to collaborate as much as possible with the
  local educational institutes and the local
  community and develop an OLPC learning platform
  locally to suit their own requirements.
• Local language contents
• Local education portal for the XOs
• e-book library thousands of books for each
  child
• School administration system
• Teachers collaboration among different schools
• Local hardware and software developments
• Local OLPC wiki community

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• A starting platform that plants the seeds of our
  mission, to create educational opportunities for
  the world's poorest children by providing each
  child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power,
  connected laptop with content and software
  designed for collaborative, joyful,
  self-empowered learning.

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