Curricular & Health Content, Wartorn Deployment, Metrics & Eval

• <CanoeBerry> Speaker Mike Dawson beginning!
• <CanoeBerry> Audio only, via Skype.
• <CanoeBerry> Live from Afghanistan.
• <ntt> Talking about content (curriculum and health)
• <ntt> Content must be locally relevant
• <ntt> Two standard responses to XO demonstration: 1. Neat toy 2. This is useless
• <ntt> *garbled*
• <ntt> Giving people ideas for what they want
• <ntt> Taken Afghan curriculum (math, sci., religion) added games, audio
• <ntt> Basis for blended leaning experience
• <ntt> Learning at home and school important.
• <ntt> Assess need and reality yourself.
• <ntt> *garbled
• <ntt> Assessed: Startling time deficit in Afghanistan
• <ntt> 410 hours = school year in Afg.
• <ntt> So many kids, teaching in shifts, teachers can't even mark homework
• <ntt> Not effective.
• <ntt> Pitch:
• <ntt> "you have so little time to do stuff, the laptop does that for you"
• <ntt> Don't expect magic attitudes, expect magic issues sans magic answers.
• <ntt> Enhanced frontpage-like elearning generator
• <ntt> eXe Learning
• <ntt> saves files as HTML + JS
• <CanoeBerry> http://paiwastoon.af/eldep
• <CanoeBerry> "eXe Learning DHTML Educ Game/Activity Plugins"
• <ntt> carol ruth silver: people want link to it
• <ntt> eXelearning.org is probably in english
• <CanoeBerry> Avoid eXelearning.org
• <CanoeBerry> Stale site.
• <ntt> That version won't have the formats we made here
• <ntt> *garbled* website for that
• <CanoeBerry> Instead use: http://paiwastoon.af/eldep
• <ntt> mike@paiwastoon.com.af to contact
• <ntt> Constructionism is a spectrum
• <ntt> Rote ----------------- Handing out XO sans teacher
• <ntt> Once time issue is dealed with,
• <ntt> Health activity exis*garbled*
• <ntt> When it goes inside the house it really does have an impact
• <ntt> someone: "When I saw these pictures on the XO I always wash my hands now cooking"
• <ntt> If you spend ~300 on XO program when you could have used penicil, paper, training
• <ntt> you haven't helped you've hurt
• <ntt> We have to grapple with this
• <ntt> Getting XO on low income is hard
• <ntt> *garbled*
• <ntt> If we don't do that, we say no.
• <ntt> It's not the right way to spend $
• <ntt> We can get better outcomes with the cheaper methods
• <ntt> Cognition, creativity, stability, anti-insurgency
• <ntt> You can't look at a control school with nothing.
• <ntt> If you spend $300 on laptops and compare to no funding
• <ntt> Not valid
• <ntt> Question
• <ntt> Do you have sample text/charts/pages describing this
• <ntt> Link, uh, there are a couple of resources
• <ntt> Handbook for monitoring in ICT about 300 pages long
• <ntt> Also, USAID has frameworks for assessment
• <ntt> I think what I was saying *garbled*
• <ntt> Upload notes to olpcsf.org
• <ntt> Hans Roslin, epidemiologist for doctors without border said at TEDc
• <ntt> *x
• <ntt> Greatest impact is 15-10 year earlier increase in female education
• <ntt> Not very optimal
• <ntt> Stuff like fertility control
• <ntt> also hygiene
• <ntt> If you had a wishlist for content (</irony>) to address education for girls
• <ntt> First problem: It's harder for girls to go away for significant periods of time.
• <ntt> Lack of role models.
• <ntt> Access to quality educ. exp.
• <ntt> most important thing: Bring into the house
• <ntt> Give girls, boys equal access
• <ntt> Girls still need to know critical thinking, maths, science
• <ntt> *garbled*
• <ntt> Get female teachers up to scratch
• <ntt> Training training training
• <ntt> In terms of health materials
• <ntt> Simple interactive stuff about hygiene, birth control... sensitive. do locally.
• <ntt> Lots of paper content
• <ntt> Problem: When people make static content it does not lead to that behavioral change
• <ntt> *garbled*
• <ntt> Creating interactive materials: feedback
• <ntt> more effective
• <ntt> Unfortunately not much can be done remotely
• <ntt> Microfinance
• <ntt> We did survey of microfinance institutions: goal: microfinance matching app
• <ntt> I'm 30yo need $x do to y"
• <ntt> Educating potential clients
• <ntt> Collegue disbelieved
• <ntt> If you prematch people to institutions that will support them
• <ntt> each institution has rules
• <ntt> Sending peopel to the right place
• <ntt> Get abstracts from Pubmed
• <ntt> doctor's database
• <ntt> Best story to illustrate issue
• <ntt> Someone called fire station
• <ntt> there's a leaking fuel tank
• <ntt> Fire department says "what's it made out of"
• <ntt> metal
• <ntt> You should get a welder to weld it shut
• <ntt> Where do babies come from
• <ntt> Fixing common misconceptions
• <ntt> snopes focused on medical stuff
• <ntt> *garbled*
• <ntt> E
• <ntt> Beth Santos presenting
• <ntt> Etoys presentation on health curriculum
• <ntt> Potable Water
• <ntt> It's a colouring book in eToys, animated
• <ntt> Alright back to Mike
• <ntt> Ran through this slideshow under
• <ntt> http://talknicer.com/olpcsf.ppt
• <ntt> speach recog.
• <ntt> to teach reading
• <ntt> On low end equip
• <ntt> Optimally: 2:1 student:teacher ratio
• <ntt> Pessimally: 5:1
• <ntt> No doubts that people want to learn to read
• <ntt> JULIUS
• <ntt> hidden markov model
• <ntt> Can take speech > text, but usually for C2
• <ntt> If we convert from triphones to diphones
• <ntt> Save space, RAM
• <ntt> also easier to do
• <ntt> Trying to get web to have mic upload
• <ntt> Flash uses Speex
• <ntt> Help Gnash
• <ntt> You can do access
• <ntt> dialect, etc
• <ntt> There's a patent.
• <ntt> ONLY do a reading tutor
• <ntt> if you make a speech tutor
• <ntt> you hit the patent
• <ntt> http://librivox.org
• <ntt> http://voxforge.org
• <ntt> Jim@talknicer.com