OLPC Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar.mn | Arahuay.pe | Khairat.in | Ban Samkha.th | Galadima.ng | Cardal and CEIBAL.uy | Bashuki.np | Bishwamitra.np | Atlas School.pk | Altos de Cazucá.co  [+/-]

First Implementation Phase

January 2008

We are testing the wiki

Mongolian Children XOing (Photo by Carla)

OLPC team on the ground

• Enkhmunkh Zurgaanjin (Dec 20 - Jan 27),
• Carla Gomez Monroy (Jan 6 - 28),
• Jan Jungclaus (Jan 7 - 26),
• David Woodhouse (Jan 15 - 25),

Photos by Carla Gomez Monroy

Girl XOing

Boy XOing

Collaborating

Learning

Girls with XOs

Mother and children

Laptops at school

Receiving

Opening boxes

Learning together

Teacher and Child

Mother and Child

Exploring

Out-of-the-box Learning

Mother learning with her daughter

Exploring in class

Expressing

Friends taking a photo

Learning from each other

Self-portrait

Photo with classmates

Helping

Group discovering

Excitement

Amusement

Teacher session

Teachers exploring

Teachers learning together

Figuring out a laptop

Teacher sharing

Technical session

Team work

Exploring inside the laptop

Discovering together

Temperature test: outside -35C and inside +25C

While waiting

Traditional Mongolian gyr

Visiting student's gyr, close to the school

Getting laptop out of the backpack and plastic protecting bags

XOing inside his gyr

Photos by Jan Jungclaus

Urban Scenario Ulaan Bataar

School No. 4

Entering the school

Laptops reaching schools

Cabling to set up the servers

First activated laptop (right)

Teachers activating XOs

Parents' meeting

One Laptop per Child in Mongolian

Many excited children

The first G1G1 laptop is handed out to a child by the minister of education

Learning together

Laptops in classroom use

Happy girls

The first painting homework

View from school window: A gyr in the foreground

Student on his way home

Student's home gyr

Inside the gyr

Student working with XO at home

Countryside scenario

A few 100km of cemented road, then gravel

Countryside

Mongolian sanctuary "oovo"

Some remote areas provide electricity

A nomadic family's "gyr" (tent) with self-made TV antenna

A remote gyr during summertime (Aug '07)

The livelihood of a nomadic family is highly dependent on the well-being of their cattle

Goats provide milk and meat

The herdsman family's children live 1km from their school, which they might connect to with XO laptops in future