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bridging the divide
Bridging the Divide withEducation, Technology, and Outreach
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Professor, Information Systems DepartmentCollege of Business, San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USAhttp://verma.sfsu.edu/
Founder, OLPC San Francisco and OLPC Jamaica
sverma@sfsu.edu @sameerverma #olpc
Unless noted otherwise
School of Education – University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (March 22, 2012)
me
Teach
networks, databases, media
licensing and collaboration
strategy, compliance, governance
technology ->
enables ->
use ->
Research
diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies
from “ooh shiny!” to solving problems
Fun
take things apart!
...and sometimes put them back together :-)
context
Lego
Bhagmalpur (भागमलपुर)http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com
Mira and Maya
July 2007
The geek in me is delighted!
Then I run into Prof. Duggan
Executive Director, Mona School of Business
Next thing I know...
De facto founder of OLPC Jamaica!
http://olpcjamaica.org.jm
A tremendous “Thank you!” to the UWI community for making this happen.
http://olpcjamaica.org.jm
Providence Basic School, Kingston, Jamaica
August Town Primary School, August Town, Jamaica
Mission
OLPC's mission is to empower the world's poorest children through education
We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for
collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter
future.
Worldwide
40+ countries, 30+ languages, 2.5+ million laptops, 350+ applications
Where no computers have gone before...
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
Ethiopia
See http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/
Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School
Solomon Islands.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands
West Bank, Palestine. UN Relief and Works Agency See http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml
OLPC & Knight Foundation project in Miami
http://blog.laptop.org/2012/01/27/olpc-and-knight-foundation-launch-digital-literacy-program-in-miami-school/
Antarctica!
2.5 million + See Google Maps
Deployments worldwide
Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
Resident artist!
Khairat school is India's first 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
Aug u
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P rimary Schoo l
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Providence Basic School, Liguanea http://olpcMAP.net?id=810009
Little green machines everywhere!
Constructivism and Constructionism
● John Dewey (1859–1952)● Maria Montessori (1870–1952)● Jean Piaget (1896–1980)● Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934)● Jerome Bruner (1915- )● Herbert Simon (1916–2001)● Seymour Papert (1928- )->
Browse
Physics
TurtleArt
Scratch
Measure
Journal
Reflection
Sugar
Free and Open Source
http://sugarlabs.org/
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. 100+ languages
Tutorial:http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
Translate:http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
OLPC vs olpc
ChallengesCost
ElectricityNetwork
LanguageRepair
MaintenanceTheft
Cultural ImpactCurriculum
…...
One Laptop per Child San Francisco Community Summit 2011
http://olpcsf.org/communitysummit2011
Streng
th in numbers – O
LPC
Volunteers
Jennifer Martino – Plasticine expert and Director, OLPC Canada
Nancy Hayes, Dean , College of Business welcomes everyone
Dr. Arlene Bailey of UWIMona talks about OLPC Jamaica pilots
Craig Perue representing UWI and Jamaica.
SF Mayor's Proclamation for OLPC
Strange, but entirely plausible solutions to world problems
OLPC on The Colbert Report!
So, does it work? Ask Lidia.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xby2uj_web-la-selva_tech
Will the entire world have access to information?
We hope so.
Education Technology
Outreach
Education Technology
Outreach
Education Technology
Outreach
Education Technology
Outreach
Education Technology
Outreach
TV Time
● OLPC Mission Part 1 ● OLPC Mission Part 2● Web - La Sierra● Web - La Selva● Plan Ceibal● Ideas for Good - OLPC Australia● OLPC Australia in Action● OLPC San Francisco Interviews
All photos can be found at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/
under a Creative Commons license
XO Bridge: Chris Willis and Mike Lee http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4925323996/
http://creativecommons.org
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