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1 - Young boys studying together at home. Outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal
2 - (also part of that photo series)
3 - Two girls read on the playground. Kenema, Sierra Leone
4 - Class collaboration. Ramallah, West Bank
5 - Heading home from school. Ramallah, West Bank
6 - Heading home from school. Ramallah, West Bank
7 - Exploring activities in class. Takaungu, Kenya: A group of students explores activities in a Takaungu school, from Mazes to recording sound and video to simple programming activities.
8 - (part of the same series): Two students practice making and sharing recordings. From OLPCorps in the summer of 2009.
9 - Sharing discoveries. Hunacavelica, Peru

Recent revisions: May 24.

Images to review as potential full-homepage material:

1 - an engine for learning: On a chilly evening in Luquia, Peru, Alejandra watches as her son Miguel sits outside their house, his face illuminated by the light from his XO. "This computer is going to be a very good thing for learning."

2 - (part of the same story): Justo Miguel Común is a fifth-grader, and is the youngest of seven children of subsistence farmers. Two weeks after getting his laptop, he was taking it everywhere. "I like the math games, and I love the camera."

3 - motivation to explore: Seven-year-old Idelma types "Idelma ama a mamá" into her XO, and wiggles with pleasure as the computer's voice read her sentence back. Her teacher Inga:, "This really motivates them, and makes it easier for kids to advance at their own pace."

4 - children and teachers learning together: In the weeks before XOs arrived at this school, the teacher had requested retirement. After seeing them in use for a week, she asked to delay her retirement date, to take part in the project.

5 - recovering from an earthquake: the Puyang Primary School, in Sichuan, took in many of the students who were affected by the massive earthquake in May 2008. 1,000 of those students received XO laptops in 2009.

6 - at home in Uruguay
7 - On the coast in Oceania: In smaller towns in Oceania, children of all ages learn together in school. Some classes collaborate by videochat with classes in Australia.

9 - XOs make it to Gaza: This Spring, 2100 laptops were distributed to Gaza students. They finished their first classes with XOs in three months, and ran a popular event to show off their work.
10 - Relaxing in the field: Two girls read together in a field in Peru, from an early pilot school
11 - Reading outside at home

These boys spent part of an afternoon outside using their laptops in Colombia

Students take photos and recordings for a class science project in Peru

13 - Preparing for biology: A teacher in Rwanda takes photos of plants to prepare for her class in a Kigali workshop
14 - Laughing together: Three young students work together on the curb outside school in Brazil
15 - Drawing pictures outside
A young boy draws outside on the sidewalk in Flor de Ceibo, Uruguay

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