Ubiquitous Learning Practices Kenzen Chen. MITers Universities Governments & Sponsors Community volunteers From western world Local communities.

Ubiquitous Learning Practices

Kenzen Chen

MITers Universities Governments & Sponsors Community volunteers From western world Local communities Educators Students Out of School Settings

Technical and administrative support Developing XO2 Merging the existing open source software Grouping local initiatives like….

Language, translation, keyboards, speech synthesis, community repair center, effective free software community leaders

Organize OLPCorps to Africa OLPC.TV – shares what people do around the

world

Makes deployments efforts with governments and communities

Oregon State Univ. Open Source Lab Try to merge their Helix Software Kit

(Watch & Listen, Produce, Teleconference, Audio Presentations Via Producer) to XO

hosting the OLPC support forums. Iowa State University

Bicycle Pedal Generator

OLPCorps UIUC SaoTome 2009 will involve the distribution of XO laptops

to girls age 9-12 located in urban and rural areas throughout the six political districts of São Tomé. Student team members will collaborate in part with University of Illinois youth community informatics project.

Brazil – UCA Project Federal

government purchased 50.000 XOs, 500 by school , equipped with 1 Mbps broadband (at least) and 2 servers

Papua New Guinea is participating in trials of the XO laptop, distributed

by the OLPC Foundation and implemented by the Secretariat for the Pacific Community.

Ethiopia Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi confirmed (Nov.

2007) his commitment of giving 50,000 laptops to Ethiopia. The importance of the funding is its exemplary nature - it is model for other European countries and the EU itself to follow.

Nortel in Telesur, FL Contributing 200 OLPC units, provide

LearnIT and network connections offered as applications.

Susie Scott Krabacher of the Mercy & Sharing Foundation Delivered the XO laptops in Port-Au-Prince,

Haiti at Feb. 2008.

OLPC in NYC “Out of the box” workshops targeted to

writing instruction Participation in a citywide constructionist

learning project Technology planning workshops and

consultation Optional intensive onsite support for

lead teachers

TinyLanguage a comprehension-based language learning

program for low cost computing devices, including the XO. Conducted by OLPC Chicago.

FLOSS: Free manuals for Free software G1G1 XO manual

Volunteer Demos on Youtube E.g. a librarian’s blog Unboxing, testing, reviewing, and hacking

Free Music Project a collection of free music

from cultures and genres around the world

Country Tech Support Teams Create localized FAQ and Network/IT

documentation Build a database for deployment and for

problem tracking E-Mail to OLPC for problems not resolved

locally Sugar Lab Translation System

Help translate wiki and software

Community repair centers Canada, Nepal, The Netherlands, France,

and the US. OLPC India Student Chapter

to spread awareness about OLPC in India and unite the student manpower of various universities, colleges and schools.

24 official languages need to be translated.

Uruguay schools OLPC+ Blogger &

Wordpress OLPC Friends/Australia's

first deployment Making diaries, write

scientific reports, and related spelling, grammar, and typing skills

1st results in 3rd worlds (official statements)

Used as a light source in houses Take pictures Children come to school again, girls also,

just like when you provide food Parents understand better the use of

schools Children learn faster and better

First results Netherlands Read an eBook (digital schoolbook) Texteditor: answer questions and writing

stories “Memory” make your own game and play

with: counting, practise English words, “Measure” the distance between 2 XO's “Speak”, type in text and read out loud

by the XO “Surf” find information on the internet

OLPC Health Group Bolivia Maternal Health Education Project Health Software and software: TeleHealth

remote sensor package Build health contents

Should be more practices, but I’m not able to read them all……

Many OSS supporters are highly engaged in OLPC projects

Instructional practices need to be shared. There is still a gap between what IT people

recommended(like sensors) on instruction and what teachers really do, just like the story when computers walk into classroom.

olpc.tv Wiki.laptop.org http://planet.laptop.org/ Forum.laptop.org Olpcnews.com/forum http://blog.laptop.org/