bridging the divide

Bridging the Divide withEducation, Technology, and Outreach

Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Professor, Information Systems DepartmentCollege of Business, San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USAhttp://verma.sfsu.edu/

Founder and Organizer, OLPC San Francisco Communityhttp://olpcsf.org/

sverma@sfsu.edu @sameerverma #olpc

Unless noted otherwise

California Association of Independent Schools – Technology Professional Day (Feb 15, 2012)

me

Teach

networks, databases, media

licensing and collaboration

strategy, compliance, governance

technology ->

enables ->

use ->

Research

diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies

from “ooh shiny!” to solving problems

Service

The Commons Initiative at SF State

http://commons.sfsu.edu

Fun

take things apart!

...and sometimes put them back together :-)

context

Lego

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

Mira and Maya

July 2007

The geek in me is delighted!

OLPC San Francisco

de facto organizerhttp://olpcsf.org

OLPC

http://laptop.org

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.

Mission

http://youtu.be/c-M77C2ejTw

Principles

http://youtu.be/qMeX2D4AOjM

Worldwide

40+ countries, 30+ languages, 2.5+ million laptops, 350+ applications

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 ThailandSee http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha

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

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

Ethiopia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Australia

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

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

OLPC & Knight Foundation project in Miami

http://blog.laptop.org/2012/01/27/olpc-and-knight-foundation-launch-digital-literacy-program-in-miami-school/

Antarctica!

2.5 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

Jamaica

http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

Little green machines everywhere!

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- )->

Sugar

“A thing to think with.” “Learning learning.”

http://sugarlabs.org

Browse

Physics

TurtleArt

Scratch

Measure

Journal

Reflection

Sugar

Free and Open Source

http://sugarlabs.org/

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/

OLPC vs olpc

http://olpcmap.net

OLPC San Francisco

AfghanistanArmeniaHaitiHondurasIndiaJamaicaMadagascarPakistanPhilippinesSenegalSouth Africa UgandaTuva

San Francisco

http://olpcsf.org

ChallengesCost

ElectricityNetwork

LanguageRepair

MaintenanceTheft

Cultural ImpactCurriculum

…...

OLPC and SF State University

One Laptop per Child San Francisco Community Summit 2011

http://olpcsf.org/communitysummit2011

OLPC on The Colbert Report!

So, does it work? Ask Lidia.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xby2uj_web-la-selva_tech

Will the entire world have access to information?

We hope so.

Education Technology

Outreach

Education Technology

Outreach

Education Technology

Outreach

Education Technology

Outreach

Education Technology

Outreach

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

&

All photos can be found at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/

under a Creative Commons license

XO Bridge: Chris Willis and Mike Lee http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4925323996/

http://creativecommons.org

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