Bridging the Digital Divide with Education, Technology, and Outreach from the OLPC project's perspective. We look at approaches to children and learning. We also look at ways in which we bypass a lack of infrastructure, teacher rigor, and cultural barriers. OLPC now reaches all continents, including Antarctica!

1. bridging the divide

2. Bridging the Divide with
Education, Technology, and Outreach
California Association of Independent Schools – Technology Professional Day (Feb 15, 2012)
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems Department
College of Business, San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
Founder and Organizer, OLPC San Francisco Community
http://olpcsf.org/
sverma@sfsu.edu
@sameerverma #olpc
Unless noted otherwise

3. me

4. Teach
technology -> networks, databases, media
enables -> licensing and collaboration
use -> strategy, compliance, governance

5. Research
diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies
from “ooh shiny!” to solving problems

6. Service
The Commons Initiative at SF State
http://commons.sfsu.edu

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

8. context

9. Lego

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

11. Mira and Maya

12. July 2007
The geek in me is delighted!

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

14. OLPC
http://laptop.org

15. Mission
OLPC's mission is to empower the world's 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 of
tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create
together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter
future.

16. Mission
http://youtu.be/c-M77C2ejTw

17. Principles
http://youtu.be/qMeX2D4AOjM

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

19. Where no computers have gone before...

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

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

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

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

24. Ethiopia
See http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37. Antarctica!

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

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

40. Resident artist!

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

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

43. Jamaica
http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

47. Little green machines everywhere!

48. 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- )

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

50. Browse

51. Physics

52. TurtleArt

53. Scratch

54. Measure

55. Journal

56. Reflection

57. Sugar
Free and Open Source
http://sugarlabs.org/

58. 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 L10n
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
Approx. 100+ languages

59. OLPC vs olpc

60. http://olpcmap.net

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

62. Challenges
Cost
Electricity
Network
Language
Repair
Maintenance
Theft
Cultural Impact
Curriculum
…
...

63. OLPC and SF State University

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

75. OLPC on The Colbert Report!

76. So, does it work? Ask Lidia.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xby2uj_web-la-selva_tech

77. Will the entire world have access to information?
We hope so.

78. Education Technology
Outreach

79. Education Technology
Outreach

80. Education Technology
Outreach

81. Education Technology
Outreach

82. Education Technology
Outreach

83. 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

84. &

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