One Laptop per Child at SF State

Sameer Verma, Ph.D. One Laptop per Child at SF State

Presentation: Early Childhood Education Burk Hall 173 Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor Information Systems Department College of Business San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/ One Laptop per Child at SF State

Disclaimer: I do not work for OLPC. I am only a volunteer!

Somebody is finally thinking of the children! 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. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

Infomercial
OLPC Mission Part 1: Principles and Child Empowerment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw
OLPC Mission Part2: The XO Laptop, design for learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM
No, I am not a salesperson :-)

July 2007 The geek in me is delighted!

Where no computers have gone before...

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 refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School

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

postage stamps too!

2 million + See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

India http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_school

Resident artist!

Khairat school is India's first 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
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
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur

What's a laptop?

Under a tree...

Real faces. Real people. Will their lives change? Maggu saved me from a dog once. I am forever in his debt.

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

Jamaica

Madagascar

OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Little green machines everywhere!

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, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n Approx. 100+ languages Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/

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- )

Constructionism (Papert)
Papert created Epistemology and Learning Research Group, MIT (became MIT Media Lab)
Wrote: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas , 1980, ISBN 0-465-04674-6
"No one understands my ideas as well as Papert." - Jean Piaget
Created Logo language and Logo Turtle
LEGO Mindstorms products were named after his book.

Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/

school...to go

OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://olpcsf.org/

OLPC-SF Deployments
A hub for exchange of ideas, plans, content, etc.
Deployments
Afghanistan ( Carol Ruth Silver, MTSA )
India ( Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma, SFSU )
Jamaica ( Sameer Verma, SFSU & Univ. of the West Indies )
Madagascar ( Sameer Verma, SFSU & June Kleider, XO-ology )
Philippines ( eKindling.org )
Senegal ( Drew & Lick-Wilmerding Schools )
South Africa ( EduWeavers )
San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)
Uganda ( UC Berkeley )

OLPC-SF resident expert

OLPC-SF and SF State University

In the quad...

On the student union...

In the classroom

In research Benjamin Tran's master's thesis work.

At SF State Downtown Center

SFSU Lending Library
Library Media Services has 10 XO laptops
Loan to students, staff and faculty
HSS 127
You get:
XO Laptop
Charger
Instructions
Take one to class
Take one home
Join the community! http://opensource.sfsu.edu/olpc

OLPC SF Community Summit 2010 http://olpcsf.org/summit October 22 - 24, 2010

OLPC on The Colbert Report !

So, does it work? Ask Lidia.

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