85% of Uruguayan children are now online
A Ceibal teacher challenges a student to XOlympics Access to the Internet has tripled in the interior of Uruguay, and 85% of all children use the Internet, according to a recent study by Radar and...
View ArticleUpdates from Alabama: NSF research and spring break XO camp
In 2008, the city of Birmingham started an OLPC project for their 15,000 elementary school students, to bridge the city’s digital divide. Last summer, the NSF funded a two-year analysis of Birmingham’s...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea’s Jim Taylor Primary School
Earlier this month, Laura Hosman, an assistant professor following OLPC, wrote an eloquent two-part series about her visit to the Jim Taylor Primary School in Kisap, Papua New Guinea, an hour’s drive...
View ArticleRoger Siptakiat on OLPC in Thailand
Late last year, Roger (Arnan) published a brief summary of his two-year analysis of seven schools in Thailand, reported in The Nation, which was spun negatively in the Bangkok Post. While I haven’t...
View ArticleCanada’s Eastern Townships make good use of olpc
The school board of Eastern Townships, Canada, under Ron Canuel, has been pursuing a one laptop per child school program for over eight years, today reaching roughly 2,700 students and teachers. A...
View ArticleComments on Jeffrey James’s olpc critique
By Antonio M. Battro, OLPC’s Chief Education Officer Jeffrey James wrote a critique of OLPC last year, proposing a balanced pattern of “sharing computers” among children (say 5 children per computer,...
View ArticleSeverin and Capota analyze 1-to-1 laptop programs in Latin America
Last month, Eugenio Severin and Christine Capota recently published a report for the IDB, analyze 1-to-1 laptop programs across Latin America and the Caribbean. They considered models for success and...
View ArticleDr. Sugata Mitra in Montevideo, Uruguay
This essay is reposted by Carlos Rabassa of Uruguay, from a lecture he gave in June. Dr. Mitra gave an excellent lecture on June 2, 2011 at Universidad ORT in Montevideo, Uruguay on “The Future of...
View ArticlePromoting the Knowledge Economy in the Arab World
A recent research paper by Michael Lightfoot, published recently in SAGEopen, reviews the impact of technology-related education reforms, including improved access to computing and the Internet, on...
View ArticleXOs in Brazil: impacting early reading and writing
Post via Silvia Kist Seymour’s Papert ideas are a source of inspiration for many teachers and researchers in Brazil and had a big impact on how the country’s computer lab program was shaped in the...
View ArticleUS survey finds support for 1:1 computer programs among school admins
A recent study by edutech research firm Interactive Educational Systems Design (IESD), funded by 1:1 curriculum provider Time To Know, asked school administrators how they felt about classroom...
View ArticleSchool computer labs passing out of favor
Mike Trucano, in a typically balanced and measured World Bank blog post, notes that computer labs are coming under increasing scrutiny — and that despite decades of use in the developed world, there is...
View ArticleLearning to read with One Tablet per Child
Can tablets make a difference to a child learning to read for the first time, without a teacher or traditional classroom structure? That’s the question we are exploring with our reading project,...
View Article“The digital gap is shrinking in Peru” [German review]
a translation of Julio Segador’s report for ARD Buenos Aires Four years ago, we launched OLPC in Peru – now the largest primary-school initiative of its kind in the world – to distribute laptops to 810...
View Article“Why I hope kids in Ethiopia can teach us something profound about...
I believe that we get into trouble when knowing becomes a surrogate for learning. We know that a vast recall of facts about something is in no way a measure of understanding them. At best, it is...
View ArticleThe Reading Project in Ethiopia explained by the OLPC team involved in the...
OLPC San Francisco Community Summit is a community event that brings together educators, technologists, anthropologists, enthusiasts, champions and volunteers. The purpose is to share stories, exchange...
View ArticleWhy schools should provide one laptop per child
Mark Warschauer, Professor of Education and Informatics from the University of California, Irvine and Binbin Zheng, Assistant Professor from the Michigan State University, recently posted an article...
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