Bridging the Digital Divide with Education, Technology, and Outreach

bridging the divide

Bridging the Divide withEducation, Technology, and OutreachCalifornia Association of Independent Schools – Technology Professional Day (Feb 15, 2012)Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Professor, Information Systems DepartmentCollege of Business, San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USAhttp://verma.sfsu.edu/Founder and Organizer, OLPC San Francisco Communityhttp://olpcsf.org/sverma@sfsu.edu@sameerverma #olpc Unless noted otherwise

Teachtechnology -> networks, databases, media enables -> licensing and collaboration use -> strategy, compliance, governance

Researchdiffusion and adoption of innovative technologies from “ooh shiny!” to solving problems

ServiceThe Commons Initiative at SF State http://commons.sfsu.edu

Fun take things apart!...and sometimes put them back together :-)

context

Bhagmalpur (भागमलपुर) http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com

Mira and Maya

July 2007The geek in me is delighted!

OLPC San Francisco http://olpcsf.org de facto organizer

OLPChttp://laptop.org

MissionOLPCs mission is to empower the worlds 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 oftool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and createtogether. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

Missionhttp://youtu.be/c-M77C2ejTw

Principleshttp://youtu.be/qMeX2D4AOjM

Worldwide 40+ countries, 30+ languages,2.5+ million laptops, 350+ applications

Where no computers have gone before...

School Galadima, Abuja City, NigeriaSee 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 Indias pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

Mongolia.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ulaanbaatar

EthiopiaSee http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/

Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistanhttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School

Colombia.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia

Peru.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru

Rwanda.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rwanda

Iraq.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Iraq

Haiti.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haiti

Solomon Islands.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands

Nepal.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nepal

Uruguay.See http://www.ceibal.edu.uy

Australia Australia.See http://laptop.org.au

West Bank, Palestine. UN Relief and Works AgencySee http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml

OLPC & Knight Foundation project in Miamihttp://blog.laptop.org/2012/01/27/olpc-and-knight-foundation-launch-digital-literacy-program-in-miami-school/

Antarctica!

Deployments worldwide 2.5 million + See Google MapsAlso see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

Indiahttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_school

Resident artist!

Khairat school is Indias first pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

Khairat school is Indias pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

Jamaicahttp://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

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- )

Sugar http://sugarlabs.org“A thing to think with.” “Learning learning.”

Browse

Physics

TurtleArt

Scratch

Measure

Journal

Reflection

SugarFree and Open Sourcehttp://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,Tutorial: Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish,http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur,Translate: Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10nhttp://translate.sugarlabs.org/ Approx. 100+ languages

OLPC vs olpc

http://olpcmap.net

OLPC San Francisco Afghanistan Armenia Haiti Honduras India Jamaica Madagascar Pakistan Philippines Senegalhttp://olpcsf.org South Africa Uganda Tuva San Francisco

Challenges Cost Electricity Network Language Repair Maintenance TheftCultural Impact Curriculum … ...

OLPC and SF State University

One Laptop per Child San Francisco Community Summit 2011http://olpcsf.org/communitysummit2011

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 TechnologyOutreach

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

http://creativecommons.org All photos can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/ under a Creative Commons license -0- XO Bridge: Chris Willis and Mike Leehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4925323996/

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