Children as stewards of our future
Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Presentation:
Montessori Children's Center
Associate Professor
80 Juan Bautista Cir
Information Systems Department
San Francisco CA, 94132 - 1795
San Francisco State University
www.montessorichildrenscenter.org
San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
Creative commons license
http://creativecommons.org/

OLPC Mission: two videos
Principles and Child Empowerment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw
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The XO Laptop, design for learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM
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me

July 2007
The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.

Somebody is finally
thinking of the
children!

The Prophet
Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you
cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
-kahlil gibran

A different generation...

School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima

Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha

Khairat school is India's pilot site.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

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

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

Ghana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2921143251/

Cameroon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set-72157611290673682/

Afghanistan
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deployments worldwide
Source: See Google Maps

Deployments worldwide
... ...
Source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

India

Resident artist!

Khairat school is India's 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

Khairat Photos
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40064/

Bhagmalpur project
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur
Location:
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Village: Bhagmalpur
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District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
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Railway Station: Shahganj
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Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh
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School:
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Classes: 1 to 8 class
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Children: 1087
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Teachers: 11
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Internet: none
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Computers: none
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Under a tree model

Bhagmalpur photos
Bhagmalpur School
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/
Bhagmalpur Village
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/

Jamaica

OLPC Headquarters
1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

school...to go

Collaboration
Activities
Journal

Collaboration

Activities
Write
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A simple word processor
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Chat
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Similar to Google Talk
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Browse
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Firefox-based
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Record
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stills and video
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More activities... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities

Journal

One forward, One right
An interesting way to
draw a circle in TurtleArt
One step forward,
wait for one second,
one degree to the right,
repeat 360 times
The wait allows you
to see the turtle draw
the circle slowly
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art

InfoSlicer
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/InfoSlicer

E-Toys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zLAYgjx5J0

OLPC XO-1
Antenna
Microphone
Camera
Speaker
Rotate screen USB
Keyboard
Mouse pad
Gamepad
Power
Battery

For the more electronically inclined...

Yo Yo Charger
http://www.potenco.com/products

Hand Crank Charger
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank

Solar Panel
5 Watt/14Volt panel
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels

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,
Tutorial:
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 L10n
https://dev.laptop.org/translate/
Approx. 90+ languages

Language Diversity
India: 28 states and 7 union territories
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The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages
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1. Assamese 9. Konkani 17. Sanskrit
2. Bengali 10. Maithili 18. Santhali
3. Bodo 11. Malayalam 19. Sindhi
4. Dogri 12. Manipuri 20. Tamil
5. Gujarati 13. Marathi 21. Telugu
6. Hindi 14. Nepali 22. Urdu
7. Kannada 15. Oriya
8. Kashmiri 16. Punjabi

OLPC San Francisco Bay Area
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf

OLPC-SF resident expert

OLPC-SF and SF State University

In the quad...

On the student union...

OLPC-SF at SFSU Downtown
Center

OLPC-SF and SF State University
Meets once a month at SFSU Down Town Center.
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See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
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IMSA (student association) helps with organizing meetings, donation drives,
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translation jams
http://imsa.sfsu.edu/
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Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair Center
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See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair
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Internships?
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Volunteers?
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Course projects?
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More...
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How can you help?
Educators
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
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Translators
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization
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http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
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Developers
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer
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Getting involved
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC
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Sugar
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http://sugarlabs.org
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Mailing lists
Educators
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http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators
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Software Developers
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General development
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http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
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Sugar UI
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http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
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All mailing lists are at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/

Community lists
Everyone
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http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
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http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
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OLPC San Francisco
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http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
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About the Cover Photo
This photo was taken in
Bhagmalpur, India on November 3,
2008.
I was trying to connect to the Internet
using a cell phone. This was the first
time a computer from Bhagmalpur
had connected to the Internet...ever.
I had to go to the roof of the house,
where I could get a good cell phone
signal, but we had no electricity, so I
had to do all this in the light of a
kerosene lantern.
5.1 billion of the world's population is
still unconnected. Not every one is http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3011271194/
so lucky to have 24/7 Internet
access.
--
Sameer Verma