Post on 29-Jan-2018
OLPC VietnamVisit to the Vung Vieng Village -
Report (June 2010)Serge Stinckwich
Serge.Stinckwich@gmail.com
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
• OLPC = US NGO
• OLPC Goal : «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.
"It's an education project,not a laptop project."
Nicholas negroponte
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100 $
XO-1
XO-1 as an ebook reader
• CPU : 433 Mhz AMD Geode
• 1200x900 LCD (with sharp images)
• 256 Mb DRAM, 1 Gb flash memory
• Internal SD card slot, Wifi
• Water-resistant keyboard
Localized keyboard
• 1.6 million laptops (october 2009)
• Laptops are sold to governments to be distributed through the ministries of education
• Laptop are property of the child
• G1G1 program
Distribution models
OLPC in Asia
Warranty applied only if you disassemble the
machine, Nicolas Negroponte.
Sugar
• Sugar is a free desktop environment (GPL) designed with the goal of being used by children for learning.
• Sugar does not use the «desktop», «folder» and «window» metaphors (focus on one program at a time).
• Activities, no applications !
• Work on XO-1 laptop or included in Linux distributions. Mostly written in Python
• Hundred of activities: math, physics, programming, english, serious games, ...
Pilot Experiment in Vung Vieng
• Vung Vieng is located in Bai Tu Long Bay, Vietnam
• 40km from mainland
• Deployment in nov 2009 by Nancy Severs (US volunteer)
• 12 XO + solar panels
• Every laptops are working correctly and are used everyday by children. Children enjoyed using XOs.
• Kids know how to use their computers.
• XOs are not part of the curriculum of the children
• Sustainability problem: teachers stay only one year in the VV school.
• Only a limited set of activities seem to be used by children. Not enought vietnamese contents.
After 6 months
What to do now for OLPC Vietnam ?
• Build a user community for SUGAR in Vietnam
• Build OLPC Vietnam
• Develop vietnamese contents
• Write (or translate) vietnamese documentation
• Train teachers
Follow OLPC-Nepal path
• OLE Nepal started 3 years ago
• 30 people (15 contents developers)
• 4 keys for success (according to Rabi Karmacharya): 1) content, 2) educators 3) network 4) capacity
Some projets for OLPC Vietnam developers
• Translate OLPC documentation, books, flyers in Vietnamese
• Translate Activities in Vietnamese (Scratch)
• Test EToys in Vietnamese (font problems)
• Develop vietnamese curriculum
• Developers training: Sugar, Python, Squeak, ...
What do now for VVV ?
• Made an evaluation of activities used by children
• Reinstall machines with a selection vietnamese activities, update to the last version of Sugar (0.82.1 => 0.88)
• Train teachers, develop local support (parents ?)
• How to scale up to others villages ?
Some useful links
• OLPC : http://laptop.org/
• Sugar: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
• EToys: http://www.squeakland.org/
• OLPC Vietnam: http://olpc.vn/
• Smalltalk-vn: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/smalltalk-vn
Thank you for your attention.
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