Research

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Please use this page to discuss issues of research about and related to OLPC. Potential research topics include

• impact on children, schools, communities
• responses to same
• networks of similar projects
• Constructionism
• Bibliographies and survey papers

These are generally not projects carried out by OLPC, but a community discussion of proposed projects by universities and other organizations.

There is a mailing list for the subject : research@lists.laptop.org

interested participants

please add yourself below and link to your user page

• Kaleel urRahuman
• Sangamitra R
• Jennifer DeBoer
• Rob Faris
• Mike Best
• the Poverty Lab (US)
• Barrett Strickland
• Poornima Padmanabhan
• Sofie Blinkenberg
• Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Projects

If you are working on a project, know of a project, or would like to start a project, please list it here, create a page for it or add a ==Research== section to an existing page, and tell us how to contact the principals.

• Literacy
• Bake-offs (comparison of Sugar on XO with conventional software on other laptops)
• Constructionism
• Health
• Teacher Training
• Textbook redesign
• Programming by children
• Kindergarten Calculus
• Language learning by Internet
• Innovation
• Helplessness
• Cooperation
• Consequences of XOs and Sugar in education
• XO laptops for socially-disadvantaged school children

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