One Laptop Per Child - An Innovation for Underprivileged Kids
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An Innovation to Help Underprivileged Kids
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How to start a Good Startup?
Solve an Important Problem
With a New SolutionA Great Idea
Marketing
$$$ Funding $$$
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpcasia/4033678409/
Poverty
Kids
The Problem
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day;
show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.The Solution
Education
TechnologyThe Solution
Dynabook
1972, Alan Kay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dynabook.png CC BY-SA
One Laptop per Child$100 Laptop, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XO-Beta1-mikemcgregor-2.jpg CC BY
Nicholas Negroponte of MIT
One Laptop per ChildFigure Head
http://laptop.org/about/people/negroponte CC BY
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw
The kids keep the laptops.
Focus on early education.
No one gets left out.
Connection to the Internet.
Free to grow and adopt.
5 Principles
Kids learning by doingwith XOsin GroupsSocial Constructivism
1. The kids keep the laptops.3. No one gets left out.
4. Connection
Video
Walter Bender 3:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj6awWWLoN0
Education in the Third World
Being both a learner and a teacher
Being social
Being expressive3 Objectives
Memorize
Social Constructivism
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Memorize_play.png CC BY-SA
Memorize
Social Constructivism
http://wikieducator.org/File:Kos-olpc-lessonres-4.jpg CC BY-SA
Turtle Art
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5c/TA-Sierpinski.png CC BY
Python
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Captura_pantalla_de_%22Pippy_Activity_pizza%22.png CC BY-SA
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Free SoftwareOpen Source
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Free SoftwareOpen Source
Children can legally change the software and the content
Children can contribute
Essential to Social Constructivism
Free/Open SourceFree Content
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $1 million award to the Veria Central Public Library in Veria, Greece.
Gates Foundation gives $1M to Greek library
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/08/09/daily33.html
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will provide the library with donated software and technology training curriculum.
Gates Foundation (Cont')
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/08/09/daily33.html
Should the Gates Foundation Support Linux and Apple Computers in Public Libraries?
Phil Shapiro
Criticism
http://www.pcworld.com/article/171291/Should_the_Gates_Foundation_Support_Linux_and_Apple_Computers_in_Public_Libraries.html
Solve an Important ProblemWith a Great Solution
Marketing
$$$ Funding $$$Startup Revisit
AMD
Marvell Technology Group
Red Hat
Quanta
and more Corporations
and Individuals
Funding
2.4 Million Laptop Worldwide
Peru 860,000Uruguay 510,000Rwanda 110,000Australia 4,400Deployment
Asia Pacific HQ
is in
Hong Kong
One Laptop Per Child
2009 Sichuan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpcasia/4033678409/
2009 Bhutan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/4045141021/ CC BY
2012 Local Deployment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digilit/7933070662/
2013 OLPC Basecamp
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101827562521972&set=oa.235028823324767&type=3&theater
Cambodia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Nepal
Pakistan
Vietnam
...
Other Deployment in APAC
So is it All Good?
Criticism
https://www.facebook.com/pages/WebOrganic-%E6%9C%89%E6%A9%9F%E4%B8%8A%E7%B6%B2/170870822976369
Slow in Progress
Non-Profit
OLPC XO
2008
X0-1AMD Geode 433MHz256MB RAM, 1GB Flash
2010
X0-1.5Via C7-M 400MHz1GB RAM, 4GB Flash
2012
X0-1.75Armada 610 (ARM) 800 MHz1GB RAM, 8GB Flash
2013X0-4(touch screen)Marvell PXA2128 (ARM) 1GHz2GB RAM, 8GB Flash
2008 Netbook
2010 iPad
2011 Android TabletCommercial Products
From Knowledge Providers
To Facilitators
Social Constructivism& Teachers
Video
Uruguay 13:00 and 21:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxMLDZN77uo
Being both a learner and a teacher
Being social
Being expressive3 Objectives
More Criticism
https://www.facebook.com/pages/WebOrganic-%E6%9C%89%E6%A9%9F%E4%B8%8A%E7%B6%B2/170870822976369
What did the Founder Say?
Evaluation
http://www.hyperpublic.org/schedule/
No evidence is found of effects on enrollment and test scores in Math and Language. Some positive effects are found, however, in general cognitive skills as measured by Ravens Progressive Matrices, a verbal fluency test and a Coding test.
Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child ProgramCristia J., Ibarrarn P., Cueto S., Santiago A., Severn E. 2012
Academic Research
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2032444
Perseverance
vs
Stubbornness
Startup Analogy
OLPC is an adventure
OLPC is transparent
Conclusion
Credits
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