This document summarizes Sameer Verma's presentation on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. It discusses OLPC's mission to provide educational opportunities to children around the world through low-cost laptops. It provides examples of OLPC deployments in various countries and discusses the pedagogical approaches behind OLPC like constructionism. It also describes involvement of San Francisco State University with OLPC through research, classroom use, and community events.

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

2. 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

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

4. 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

6. July 2007 The geek in me is delighted!

7. Where no computers have gone before...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. postage stamps too!

24. 2 million + See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

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

26. Resident artist!

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

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

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

31. District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

32. Railway Station: Shahganj

34. Children: 1087

35. Teachers: 11

36. Internet: none

37. Computers: none http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur

38. What's a laptop?

39. Under a tree...

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

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

42. Jamaica

47. Madagascar

49. OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

50. Little green machines everywhere!

51. 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/

53. Maria Montessori (1870–1952)

54. Jean Piaget (1896–1980)

55. Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934)

56. Jerome Bruner (1915- )

57. Herbert Simon (1916–2001)

58. Seymour Papert (1928- )

60. Wrote: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas , 1980, ISBN 0-465-04674-6

61. "No one understands my ideas as well as Papert." - Jean Piaget

62. Created Logo language and Logo Turtle

63. LEGO Mindstorms products were named after his book.

64. Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/

65. school...to go

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

69. India ( Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma, SFSU )

70. Jamaica ( Sameer Verma, SFSU & Univ. of the West Indies )

71. Madagascar ( Sameer Verma, SFSU & June Kleider, XO-ology )

72. Philippines ( eKindling.org )

73. Senegal ( Drew & Lick-Wilmerding Schools )

74. South Africa ( EduWeavers )

75. San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)

76. Uganda ( UC Berkeley )

77. OLPC-SF resident expert

78. OLPC-SF and SF State University

79. In the quad...

80. On the student union...

81. In the classroom

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

83. At SF State Downtown Center

85. HSS 127

87. Charger

89. Take one home

90. Join the community! http://opensource.sfsu.edu/olpc

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

98. OLPC on The Colbert Report !

100. So, does it work? Ask Lidia.