Children as stewards of our future

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 – The XO Laptop, design for learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM –

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

Resident artist!

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: ● Village: Bhagmalpur ● District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh ● Railway Station: Shahganj ● Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh ● School: ● Classes: 1 to 8 class ● Children: 1087 ● Teachers: 11 ● Internet: none ● Computers: none ●

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 ● A simple word processor – Chat ● Similar to Google Talk – Browse ● Firefox-based – Record ● stills and video – 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 ● The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages – 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. ● See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea – IMSA (student association) helps with organizing meetings, donation drives, ● translation jams http://imsa.sfsu.edu/ – Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair Center ● See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair – Internships? ● Volunteers? ● Course projects? ● More... ●

How can you help? Educators ● http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators – Translators ● http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization – http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 – Developers ● http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer – Getting involved ● http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC – Sugar ● http://sugarlabs.org –

Mailing lists Educators ● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators – Software Developers ● General development – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ● Sugar UI – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar ● All mailing lists are at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/

Community lists Everyone ● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open – OLPC San Francisco ● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf –

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

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