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OLPC's Five Principles

Child Ownership

OLPC has created the XO laptop to be low cost, robust and powerful, beautiful and friendly. It was designed for elementary school children, the first of its kind.

A laptop can be transformed into a mobile school: a portable learning and teaching environment. A connected laptop is more than a tool. It is a new human environment of a digital kind. An essential aspect of OLPC is the free use of the laptop at home, where the child and the family together can greatly increase the practice time normally available at a school lab or library.

The ownership of the XO is a basic right, coupled with new duties and responsibilities: including protecting, caring for, and sharing this creative environment.

Low Ages

The XO is designed for the use of children ages 6 to 12 — covering the years of elementary school — but nothing precludes its use earlier or later in life. Children do not need to know how to write or read to enjoy and learn with an XO. Playing is the basis of human learning, and the digital activities on an XO help with acquisition of reading and writing.

Every year a new class of students will be incorporated into the program. The assessment of the OLPC program should be intrinsic to each class, and every student will have an individual portfolio or journal with the history of his or her learning paths in the many disciplines at school. Small children with learning, motor or sensory disabilities may use the computer as a prosthesis to read, write, calculate, and communicate.

Saturation

OLPC is committed to elementary education in developing countries. To attain this objective we aim to reach “digital saturation” in a given population. The key point is to choose the best scale in each circumstance. It can be a country, a region, a municipality or a village, in which every child and teacher will own a connected laptop.

As with vaccinations, digital saturation implies a commitment to maintaining these tools as part of primary education over time. With it, the whole community becomes responsible for this focus on shared education, and the children and teachers receive support from the many institutions, individuals and groups around them. Universal connectivity helps these different communities grow together and expand in many directions, in both time and space. Over time, the education network becomes solid and robust, without a digital divide.

Connection

The XO has been designed to provide an engaging wireless network. The laptops are connected to others nearby automatically. Children in the neighborhood are permanently connected to chat, sharing information on the local network or web, making music together, editing texts, or using collaborative games.

The laptop can be charged by solar or mechanical power, or through special bulk-chargers at school. The unique XO display allows the use of the laptop under a bright sun. All of this makes it easy for children in a community to connect to one another almost anywhere.

This connectivity will be as ubiquitous as a formal or informal learning environment permits. We propose a new kind of school, an “expanded school” which grows beyond the walls of the classroom. Last but not least, this connectivity ensures a dialogue among generations, nations and cultures. The OLPC network will speak every language.

Free and Open Source

All children are learners and teachers, and this spirit of collaboration is amplified by free and open source tools.

A child with an XO is not a passive consumer of knowledge, but an active participant in a learning community. As children and teachers grow and pursue new ideas, their software, content, resources, and tools should be able to grow with them. The global nature of OLPC requires locally-driven growth, driven in part by the children themselves. Each child with an XO can leverage the learning of other children. They can teach each other, share ideas, and support each other's growth.

There is no inherent external dependency in being able to localize software into their language, fix the software to remove bugs, and repurpose the software to fit their needs. Nor is there any restriction in regard to redistribution; OLPC cannot know and should not control how the tools we create will be re-purposed in the future.

OLPC's goals require a world of great software and content, both open and proprietary. Children and teachers need the chance to choose from all of it. In the context of learning, knowledge should be free. Further, every child has something to contribute; we need a free and open framework that supports the human need to express and share.

Other principles

See also the list of Hardware Principles.

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+== OLPC's Five Principles ==
-=Les cinq principes=
+=== Child Ownership ===
-==propriété de l'enfant==
+OLPC has created the XO laptop to be low cost, robust and powerful, beautiful and friendly. It was designed for elementary school children, the first of its kind.
-L'OLPC a créé le portable XO à un trés faible coût, solide et puissant, beau et avenant.  Il a été conçu explicitement pour les enfants des classes élémentaires, le premier de son genre. La propriété du Xo est un droit de base de l'enfant, et est associé à des nouveaux devoirs et responsabilités, comme devoir protéger, soigner et partager cet équipement de valeur.
+A laptop can be transformed into a mobile school: a portable learning and teaching environment. A connected laptop is more than a tool. It is a new human environment of a digital kind.  An essential aspect of OLPC is the free use of the laptop at home, where the child and the family together can greatly increase the practice time normally available at a school lab or library.
-Un portable peut se transformer en un école mobile: un environnement d'apprentissage et d'enseignement portable.  Un portable connecté est plus qu'un outil. C'est un nouvel environnement humain numérique. Un élément clé de l'OLPC est l'usage libre du portable à la maison, où l'enfant (et sa famille) pourront utiliser le portable bien plus que dans un laboratoire informatique à l'école.
+The ownership of the XO is a basic right, coupled with new duties and responsibilities: including protecting, caring for, and sharing this creative environment.
-''Je porte mon XO comme ma paire de chaussures.''
-==bas âges==
+=== Low Ages ===
-Le XO est conçu pour être utilisé par des enfants entre 6 et 12 ans, ce qui correspond aux années de l'école élémentaire, mais rien n'empêche son usage plus tôt ou plus tard.  Les enfants n'ont pas besoin de savoir lire ou écrire pour jouer avec le XO, et on sait que le jeu est à la base de l'apprentissage humain. De plus, ces activités numériques aideront à l'acquisition de l'écriture et la lecture.
+The XO is designed for the use of children ages 6 to 12 — covering the years of elementary school — but nothing precludes its use earlier or later in life. Children do not need to know how to write or read to enjoy and learn with an  XO.  Playing is the basis of human learning, and the digital activities on an XO help with acquisition of reading and writing.
-Chaque année, une nouvelle cohorte sera incorporée au programme.  En conséquence, l'évaluation du programme OLPC devra se faire cohorte par cohorte, et chaque élève gardera un journal individuel qui retracera son chemin dans l'apprentissage des diverses disciplines scolaires.  En particulier, les petits enfants ayant des handicaps moteurs, sensoriels ou d'apprentissage pourront utiliser l'ordinateur comme une prothèse pour lire, écrire, calculer et communiquer.
+Every year a new class of students will be incorporated into the program. The assessment of the OLPC program should be intrinsic to each class, and every student will have an individual portfolio or journal with the history of his or her learning paths in the many disciplines at school.  Small children with learning, motor or sensory disabilities may use the computer as a prosthesis to read, write, calculate, and communicate.
-''J'ai de bonnes chaussures XO pour une longue marche.''
-==saturation==
+=== Saturation ===
+OLPC is committed to elementary education in developing countries.  To attain this objective we aim to reach “digital saturation” in a given population. The key point is to choose the best scale in each circumstance. It can be a country, a region, a municipality or a village, in which every child and teacher will own a connected laptop.
-L'engagement de l'OLPC  est avec l'éducation élémentaire dans les pays en vois de développement.  Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous devons arriver à une « saturation numérique » dans la population en question. La clé et de choisir la meilleure échelle dans chaque circonstance.  Ça peut être un pays entier, une région, une municipalité ou un village, où chaque enfant aura son portable.  Comme pour la vaccination, une saturation numérique implque une intervention continue sur les successives cohortes à chaque tranche d'âge.
+As with vaccinations, digital saturation implies a commitment to maintaining these tools as part of primary education over time.  With it, the whole community becomes responsible for this focus on shared education, and the children and teachers receive support from the many institutions, individuals and groups around them.  Universal connectivity helps these different communities grow together and expand in many directions, in both time and space.  Over time, the education network becomes solid and robust, without a digital divide.
-La communauté entière sera responsbale du programme OLPC et les enfants seront aidés par de nombreuses institutions, individus ou groupes de cette communauté.  Grâce à la connectivité inhérente à l'OLPC, ces différentes communautés grandiront ensemble et s'étendront dans de nombreuses dirrections, dans le temps et l'espace.  Elles deviendront solides et robustes, car saturées, sans trou ni partition.
+<!-- ''A healthy education is a vaccination, it reaches everybody and protects from ignorance and intolerance.'' -->
-''Une éducation saine est une vacctination, elle touche tout le monde et protège contre l'ignorance et l'intollérance.''
-protects from ignorance and intolerance.''
-==connexion==
+=== Connection ===
+The XO has been designed to provide an engaging wireless network.  The laptops are connected to others nearby automatically.  Children in the neighborhood are permanently connected to chat, sharing information on the local network or web, making music together, editing texts, or using collaborative games.
-Le XO a été conçu pour fournir le réseau sans fil le plus acceuillant.  Les portables sont connectés entre eux, même lorsqu'ils sont fermés.  Si un portable est connecté à Internet, tous les autres le suivent sur le web.  Les enfants autours sont ainsi connectés en permanence pour discuter, partager des informations sur le web, se réunir en vidéoconférence, faire de la musique ensemble, éditer des textes, lire des livres électroniques et s'amuser à des jeux collaboratifs en ligne.
+The laptop can be charged by solar or mechanical power, or through special bulk-chargers at school.  The unique XO display allows the use of the laptop under a bright sun.  All of this makes it easy for children in a community to connect to one another almost anywhere.
-La batterie du portable peut fonctionner plusieurs heures, et peut être chargée dans des chargeurs spéciaux à l'école, ou avec de l'énergie mécanique ou solaire.  L'écran unique du XO permet d'utiliser le portable sous un soleil brillant, ce qui permet à l'utilisateur de travailler hors de la salle de classe ou de la maison, dans la nature aussi bien que sur n'importe quelle place publie.
+This connectivity will be as ubiquitous as a formal or informal learning environment permits.  We propose a new kind of school, an “expanded school” which grows beyond the walls of the classroom.  Last but not least, this connectivity ensures a dialogue among generations, nations and cultures.  The OLPC network will speak every language.
-La connectivité sera aussi omniprésente que l'environnement d'apprentissage formel ou informel le permettra.  Nous proposons une nouvelle forme d'école, une « école étendue » qui s'étendra bien au delà des murs des salles de classe.  Et enfin mais non des moindre, cette connectivité permettra un dialogue -entre les générations, les nations et les culturels.  Toutes les langues seront parlée dans le réseau OLPC.
+<!-- ''When we talk together we stay together.'' -->
-''Quand nous parlons ensemble, nous restons ensemble.''
+=== Free and Open Source ===
-==sources libres et ouverts==
+All children are learners and teachers, and this spirit of collaboration is amplified by free and open source tools.
-L'enfant avec un XO n'est pas un simple consommateur de connaissance, mais aussi un participant actif dans une communauté d'apprentissage. Au fur et à mesure que les enfants grandissent et poursuivent des nouvelles idées, les logiciels, les contenus les ressources et les outils devront grandir avec eux.  La nature globale de l'OLPC demande que cette croissance soit locale, en grande part du fait des enfants eux-mêmes.  Chaque enfant avec un XO peut tirer profit de l'apprentissage de tous les autres enfants.  Ils s'enseignent les uns les autres, partagent des idées, et par la nature sociale de l'interface, s'entre-aident à croître intellectuellement.  Les enfants sont élèves et professeurs.
+A child with an XO is not a passive consumer of knowledge, but an active participant in a learning community. As children and teachers grow and pursue new ideas, their software, content, resources, and tools should be able to grow with them. The global nature of OLPC requires locally-driven growth, driven in part by the children themselves. Each child with an XO can leverage the learning of other children.  They can teach each other, share ideas, and support each other's growth.
-Il n'y a pas de dépendance externe intrinsèque pour traduire les logiciels dans leur propre langue, pour corriger les bogues dans les logiciels, ou pour changer les fonctionalités des logiciels selon leurs besoins.  Il n'y a pas de contrainte sur leur redistribution ; l'OLPC ne peut pas savoir et ne doit pas contrôler comment les outils que nous créons seront utilisés dans le futur.
+There is no inherent external dependency in being able to localize software into their language, fix the software to remove bugs, and repurpose the software to fit their needs. Nor is there any restriction in regard to redistribution; OLPC cannot know and should not control how the tools we create will be re-purposed in the future.
-Un monde de grands logiciels et contenus est nécessaire pour que ce projet réussisse, aussi bien libres que propriétaires.  Les enfants doivent pouvoir choisir.  Dans notre contexte d'apprentissage, où on doit s'approprier les connaissances pour les utiliser, il vaut mieux que les connaissances soient libre.  De plus chaque enfant a quelque chose à contribuer ; nous avons besoin d'un cadre libre et ouvert qui supporte et encourage ce besoin humain de base de s'exprimer.
+OLPC's goals require a world of great software and content, both open and proprietary.  Children and teachers need the chance to choose from all of it. In the context of learning, knowledge should be free. Further, every child has something to contribute; we need a free and open framework that supports the human need to express and share.
-''Donnez moi un environnement libre et ouvert, et j'apprendrais et enseignerais avec joie''
+<!--
+''Give me a free and open environment and I will learn and teach with joy.''
+-->
+=== Other principles ===
+See also the list of [[Hardware|Hardware Principles]].
+[[Category:OLPC]]