Educators

This page offers an overview of OLPC educational activities and community, and suggests ways that you can get involved.

Welcome

One Laptop per Child is an education project, not a laptop one. While much of our effort over the last few years has been devoted to bringing the physical laptop into existence, that laptop is simply the carefully crafted means to an end. Its innovative design and unique focus, together with the project's extraordinary scale (tens and hundreds of millions of children, not "a few hundred here, a few thousand there"), has the potential to impact the way children learn in rapid and profound ways. We invite you to become a part of this educational revolution.

Already, hundreds of laptops have been distributed to pilot sites around the world. This summer, the final "B4" beta-test will go out to another thousand children. The first "official" production run is estimated to be in the millions, and will increase from there. It's an exciting time to get involved with OLPC.

Some quick highlights

• laptop.org/children/learning
• OLPC Nigeria/Galadima
• OLPC Thailand/Ban Samkha/trial-200705

what else? MitchellNCharity 13:19, 23 June 2007 (EDT)

Introduction

• Learning Vision
• Educational content ideas

We need a big-picture paragraph describing:

• where is potential content discussed
• who creates content
• how it gets collected an curated
• how it gets distributed
• and how people can contribute to these steps

MitchellNCharity 13:19, 23 June 2007 (EDT)

Contributing

Jump right in!

Never used a wiki before? Wikipedia has a tutorial.

• List of some education-related tasks

Projects

• Synthesizing info from pilot programs
• Expand presence of educators on wiki
• Educational bundle as part of each release
• Reactivate educators mailing list
• Educational activity guidelines
• Educator Jam
• Meta-indexing for library
• Towards Collaborative Constructionism
• Educational toolkit
• Content guidelines

Project Ideas

Activating educators is a brainstorming space for organizational principles and new project ideas.

Guidelines and Tutorials

• Educational activity guidelines
• Collaboration guidelines

We need more tutorials!

Frequently Asked Questions

Ask a question and someone will try to answer it.

Comments and Discussion

Please leave comments on the Educators talk page.

Community

The purpose of this community is to support teachers who are using XOs in their classrooms, and to involve educators of various backgrounds who are interested in contributing to the OLPC project.

Haven't been here before?

• Create an account on the OLPCWiki!
• Add yourself to the educator Roll Call page.
• New to wiki editing? Here's a good tutorial to help you get started.

What should I do first?

• Read about the OLPC Learning Vision, to learn more about why we think children in developing countries need laptops and what we think laptops will enable them to do.
• Learn about our pilot programs-- read our reports from Nigeria and Thailand, visit the OLPC Ceibal blog, and explore the wiki pages created by OLPC Brazil.
• Familiarize yourself with OLPC's vision for content and collaboration, and the various Creative Commons licenses, since we want educational material produced for / connected with the project to be free and open source.
• Read some of the comments from teachers and children involved in the project.

And then what?

Join the community

• Add an educator user box to your user page.
• Create an educational organization page for your organization, group, or school.
• Start to Participate.

Contribute content

• Read about the content repository that will reside on the school servers.
• Add to the list of ideas for content that should be included in the repository.
• Contribute your content directly to OLPC by following these instructions.

Create activities

• Read the educational activity guidelines to learn about the features of the XO that pertain directly to educators.
• Contribute to our collection of story-based learning activities.
• Create a new activity, either with an activity template or entirely from scratch.