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Transforming ElementaryEducation
Learning Learning
Satish Jha, OLPC, [email protected]
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We are here becausewe are passionate
about education as
an agent of change
Quality education for poor and rural population iscentral to the economic and social development
What brings us together?
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Poor have aspirations beyond survival
They recognize that
only education can
help achieve
aspirations.
Can our current educational eco-system alone
deliver on these aspirations?
And they are willing to
invest in the future.
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Significant progress in reducing out of school children
But challenges of
Quality
and
Adequacyof current education format
remain.Can more of the same really make our children
compete for opportunities in 2020?
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A solution needs to not just address challenges of todaybut adjust to opportunities of tomorrow.
What kind of education do we need to take 1%
of our children into the service economy?
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A Million questions.. A quarter billion children in India have little access to education
They go to schools designed for another era
Little infrastructure that resembles what the rest of the world calls schools
A quarter of them have One room-One Teacher-Five Grades schools
After 10 years of education they barely graduate to be domestic help
A tenth make it to college: 9/10th
Cannot speak well enough after college
They are falling further behind the rest of the world.. Everyday
A Huge DIVIDE. A Huge OPPORTUNITY
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Six Decades Later: Results A majority have enrolled in schools and
Since 1950s, India has:
4 times more primary schools,
6 times more primary teachers,
17 times more in upper primary
And 500 million illiterates against 360 million citizens we inherited in 50s
Youth literacy rate of nearly 73%
44% of Indian children aged 7 to 12 cannot read a basic paragraph
50% cannot do simple subtraction
By contrast, the youth literacy rate in both China and the USA is 99%
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Infrastructure: 75% of rural Indian schools lack electrical connections
Only 41% of schools have book banks
Only 7% of Indian primary schools and 10% of upper
primary schools have computers: Mostly urban By contrast, in the US:
90 percent of children have access to computers, and
77% of households have access to Internet
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What do the benchmarks tell? Despite rising rates of enrollment in schools at
all levels, Indias children still dont receive elementary levels
of education, and
Even further from competing with a technologically
oriented world
Currently India ranks 109th
on the WorldKnowledge Economy Index
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A worms eye view.. Challenges of
Cost of computers
Software costs
Curriculum
Basics of life
Resources
Electricity
Internet
School buildings
Climate
Teachers
Maintenance
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Our response
Technologies afford us an opportunity
Making learning fun
To overcome infrastructure challenges
Making learning affordable
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The solution needs to be
Future ready the cell-phone ofeducation
Transformational generational leaps
Doable practical, implementable andaccepted by the stakeholders
Financially viable entrepreneurialthinking to make it available affordably
Rs.10 a day
OLPC - An idea triggered in the villages of India
spreading across the globe
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Design a laptop for learning
That takes little power, any source of power
That can connect with or without internet That is village friendly or village proof
Rugged
Zero Maintenance
No software costs
Affordable
Makes learning fun
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A modern Shantiniketan XO Outside
Learning under a Tree
For the Child
Sun-friendlyRain-proof
Dust-proof
Shock-proof
A couple Watts of power
Solar powered
Tablet like
Open Source - Sugar
Free Microsoft Windows
And MS Office
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5 years of text books* deforestation
* chemicals to make paper
* distribution costs
Environmental
vs
1 laptop
* RoHS compliant ++* 2W power (human recharge)
* 5+ year life (including batteries)
* recyclable
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Mechanical Design No moving parts
No hard drive, no fans
Droppable Extra rigid shell
Bumper (replacable)
Shock mounted LCD
Moisture/dust/dirt resistant
Keyboard
USB, microphone etc - protected
Connector reinforcement
Transformer hinge
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802.11s
802.11s
Terrestrial
wireless links
(wifi, wimax)
Cellularpacket-data link
(2.5G, 3G)
Optional
distribution
network
Internet
802.11sEvery Laptop
Connects
With Each Other
Without a Server
or Wi-fi
Every Laptop
connects to
Internet
With a built-in Wi-Fi
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Progress so farONE Country Every Few Weeks Embraces OLPC
Uruguay 750 K
Peru 1000 K
Argentina 100 K
Mexico 250 K Rwanda 100 K
Turkey 100 K
2600 K built and
deployed to date
MilestonesNov 2006 Laptops first available (beta)
Nov 2007 Mass production ramp Year 1 1.2 Million units shipped
Year 2 1 Million units - >
Year 3 0.7 million so far with targeted 1.3 million
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A birds eye view
Laptops for the poorest???
Too large a challenge to handle??
Poor have little interest in education??
Give the poor children food first??
Let the children read and write first??
A luxury we cannot afford..??
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What is OLPC [one laptop per child]
A project designed to help
underprivileged children access
sustainable education that is in
sync with todays needs.
A rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and
software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.A tool for education that creates skill sets that can transform lives
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What is the Potential? We have 600,000+ villages
Roughly 500,000 have the population averaging 1000 They typically have less than 50 children in primary school
Aggregating at 10 villages offers
About 500 students
Up to Rs 150,000 pm gross revenue
Aggregating Village Level SEs
About 5000 coordinators or second order SEs
Revenue potential overseen Rs 1,500,000 And so on..
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Success Stories I: Uruguay
President of Uruguay met OLPC at Davos in 2008
Decided to take it across Uruguay in 24 months
Plan started in March 2008
Inaugurated in July 2008 and issued a Postal Stamp on OLPC
By Nov 2009, every single primary school student -390,000 children beganusing OLPC
Uruguay decided to move ahead to Upper Primary and High School with it
To make Uruguay the most competitive, capable and citizen orientedgovernment in Latin America
Achieved: 100% attendance; Teachers engagement; Transformationalimpact; greater confidence besides better skills, knowledge and creativity
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Success Stories II: Peru
The second most proactive deployment of OLPC
Improved attendance Greater excitement among children
More engaged teachers
Improved capabilities
Parents begin to learn as well
The program has gone through 6 rounds of successivelaptop purchases and deployment
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Success Stories III: Khairat, India
Children enjoy learning, they compete with each other
Attendance since OLPC: Out of 27 students, up to a third seldom came to theschool before OLPC deployment. Now the attendance is 100%
Parents want children to go to school
They learn by themselves better than ever before
Teacher is engaged with students
Students get less distracted
There is a great degree of interest
Improved grasping
Creativity: pride to show off their work
Parents are excited, children show off to their parents; older siblings learn
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Financial Model.
To reach the least developed countries and get laptops
into the hands of the poorest children, a new model
of partnership (and funding) is needed.To reach the least developed countries and get
laptops into the hands of the poorest children, a
new model of partnership (and funding) isneeded.
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Challenges ahead..
Changing the mindset
Persuading the leadership
Cajoling the Corporations
Informing the Socially Oriented
Requesting the Affluent
Empowering the motivated..
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Next Steps
Start a large scale program for A Few States
Start with the most underprivileged
Start with a Model School program
Start with any innovative model.
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The Book of the Future.
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Sharing in the Future
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Key Partners from Private & Public Sectors