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This is a small deployment of about 40 laptops to |
This is a small deployment of about 40 laptops to three one-room multigrade rural schools in the forests of Chiapas, Mexico. The project Tecno-Tzotzil won one of the awards of HASTAC's & MacArthur Foundation's [http://www.dmlcompetition.net/winners.php Digital Media and Learning Competition]. It is implemented by the Graduate School of Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México |
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We would LOVE to use XOs for this deployment, but at present it seems not possible to obtain 40 laptops for specific schools, even if this would benefit very poor children :(. So very likely we'll end up with Intel's [http://www.classmatepc.com/ Classmate] laps running [http://www.dmlcompetition.net/winners.php Sugar on a stick] (SOAS). '''If anybody knows any way to obtain the XO's please let me know'''... |
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We are using the Strawberry edition of Sugar (yummm...) on a Stick running on Classmate Convertible netbooks, as we were unable to obtain just 40 XOs. The Classmate is a nice machine, faster than the XO, and also comes with camera, collapsible display, mesh network capability and is equally resistant to very active kids. It has an integrated SD Card reader, so we are actually using Sugar on SD card. SoaS currently does not support laptop to laptop communication in the wild - they have to be connected either to the same wireless net or else to the school server or other jabber server in order to share activities. We haver a local jabber server on each classroom. SoaS is still in Beta but fairly stable and well supported by the Sugar Labs community. |
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...If we can't get the XOs we will spend this summer (2009) contributing to the SOAS open source project in order to have it running on the Classmate (it already does with a few glitches); adapting SOAS so that all interesting activities work with the most recent model of the Classmate (many currently don't); and possibly translating some activities to the tzotzil language --a few of the younger kids might not read Spanish well enough. |
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Classes started August 24, 2009, after intensive training of the instructors and educational authorities. We have provided some constructionist lesson plans, but intend to motivate the instructors to develop their own plans. We will research the impact of the laptops and software on children's learning of their standard science and math curriculum and their developing cognitive abilities not specified in the curriculum. This experiment will last one school year, but we will return one year afterwards to further assess the impact. |
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Latest revision as of 09:24, 30 June 2010
This is a small deployment of about 40 laptops to three one-room multigrade rural schools in the forests of Chiapas, Mexico. The project Tecno-Tzotzil won one of the awards of HASTAC's & MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition. It is implemented by the Graduate School of Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
We are using the Strawberry edition of Sugar (yummm...) on a Stick running on Classmate Convertible netbooks, as we were unable to obtain just 40 XOs. The Classmate is a nice machine, faster than the XO, and also comes with camera, collapsible display, mesh network capability and is equally resistant to very active kids. It has an integrated SD Card reader, so we are actually using Sugar on SD card. SoaS currently does not support laptop to laptop communication in the wild - they have to be connected either to the same wireless net or else to the school server or other jabber server in order to share activities. We haver a local jabber server on each classroom. SoaS is still in Beta but fairly stable and well supported by the Sugar Labs community.
Classes started August 24, 2009, after intensive training of the instructors and educational authorities. We have provided some constructionist lesson plans, but intend to motivate the instructors to develop their own plans. We will research the impact of the laptops and software on children's learning of their standard science and math curriculum and their developing cognitive abilities not specified in the curriculum. This experiment will last one school year, but we will return one year afterwards to further assess the impact.
More details and blog on this project at http://sites.google.com/site/tecnotzotzil/
| Primary Language | ,|x|Language spoken::x}} |
| Number of Laptops | Number of manufactured laptops::40 |
| Keyboard Layout | Keyboard:: |
| Build | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Date(s) Arrived in Country | ,|x|Has received laptops on date::x}} |
| School Server | ,|x|School server status::x}} |
| Pilot Status | Pilot status::Current status: Laptops are already being used at the three schools. |