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=Introduction=
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre Porto Alegre] é uma cidade que fica no sul do Brasil.
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In 2007, the Cognitive Studies Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul State (LEC/UFRGS) was invited by the Brazilian federal government to integrate the UCA (One Computer per Student) Project, implemented with the goal of investigating the use of educational laptops as a learning tool in public schools.
==Porto Alegre Workshop==
The laboratory has been coordinating, since then, one of the trial experiences in Brazil, working in cooperation with Luciana de Abreu Public Elementary School, located in Porto Alegre. The purpose of this partnership is to investigate a new pedagogical model to support the future expansion of the initiative. At the present moment, the government is about to buy 150.000 laptops to establish the modality 1:1 (one laptop per student) in 300 schools geographically distributed all over the country. XO, designed and created especially for children’s activities, is the machine tested by LEC.
14 fevereiro 2007
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Image:1171418128.jpg|passeio com o laptop - 11:20<br>A stroll with XO-1
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=A new machine, a new educational methodology=
Oi pessoal, ontem tive um tema para fazer, tirar uma foto de um lugar de Porto Alegre. Fui para um bar na Lima e Silva encontrar uns amigos(as). Tirei uma foto da rua, como lugar onde se encontram muitos bares, restaurantes,hoteis e prédios. As pessoas que estavam no bar começaram a olhar o laptop e desmonstraram curiosidade. Eu emprestei o laptop para que todos experimentassem. Foi ótimo, alguns já tinham lido sobre o projeto nos jornais.
Miriam Ribeiro<br>25 Janeiro 2007
=== A rough translation into English ''using babel-fish'' ===


The evaluation of features which allow students to “learn trough doing” comes together with a solid pedagogical analysis, composed by different units of investigation and sustained by thirty years of studies developed by the laboratory concerning the impacts of the introduction of information technology in education. A fundamental issue that goes beyond the mere access to information technology is how to take advantage of the richness of possibilities and environments enabled by digital media to help human and social development.
;ersonal message :Hi, yesterday I had a subject to make, to take a photograph of a place in Porto Alegre(lit. "Joyous Port"), Brazil. I was looking for a bar in the ones Rasp and Hisses to find amigos(as). I took a photo of the street, as place where if they find many bars, restaurants, hotels and building. The people who were in the bar had started to look at laptop and demonstrated curiosity. I loaned the XO-1 laptop so that all could try it. It was excellent, some of them had already had read about the project in periodicals. <br> <center>Miriam Ribeiro, 25 January 2007</center>
Society is changing from Industrial Era to Information Era. However, the knowledge and values transmitted by ongoing education are still replicating the old industrial paradigm by using massive methods of teaching. In order to overcome these barriers and turn students the real authors of their knowledge, LEC has created the Learning Projects Methodology. Brazilian educational system, based on National Curricular Guidelines, enables flexibility of organization and management. Each school can create its own Political and Pedagogical Plan, integrating communities of teachers, coordinators, parents and students. This context makes the country a fertile field to innovate educational practices. The National Curricular Guidelines are aligned with the perspective of knowledge construction: they define as curricular contents concepts, attitudes and skills, emphasizing aspects such as expression, cooperation and communication.
The Learning Projects Methodology not only modifies the school routine, but also changes the paradigm of a secular educational institution. It considers the student the center of the learning process and marks the passage from an instructionist model of education to a pedagogy focused on the students’ real interests. When creating learning projects, on the contrary to what happens in traditional classes, students choose the topics to be studied, based on their own needs and motivations, and the issues are worked in an interdisciplinary way. They share productions and become agents instead of receivers, “learning to learn” and think. Teachers, in turn, replace the role of transmitters of information by the role of students’ advisors and partners, encouraging interaction and the development of different concepts. Several researches conducted at LEC based on this methodology have demonstrated its success and benefits to children.
The adoption of XO, together with an appropriate pedagogical and methodological basis, is a powerful initiative to help changing traditional education, bringing along several possibilities to develop intelligence, competences and solidarity.


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Image:Miriam.jpg|Miriam e Pedro
Image:Daniel_e_Eliana_POA.jpg|Daniel e Eliana POA
Image:Threecountries.jpg|Three countries
Image:EnjoyingXO.jpg|Laura y Alejandro
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Introduction

In 2007, the Cognitive Studies Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul State (LEC/UFRGS) was invited by the Brazilian federal government to integrate the UCA (One Computer per Student) Project, implemented with the goal of investigating the use of educational laptops as a learning tool in public schools. The laboratory has been coordinating, since then, one of the trial experiences in Brazil, working in cooperation with Luciana de Abreu Public Elementary School, located in Porto Alegre. The purpose of this partnership is to investigate a new pedagogical model to support the future expansion of the initiative. At the present moment, the government is about to buy 150.000 laptops to establish the modality 1:1 (one laptop per student) in 300 schools geographically distributed all over the country. XO, designed and created especially for children’s activities, is the machine tested by LEC.

A new machine, a new educational methodology

The evaluation of features which allow students to “learn trough doing” comes together with a solid pedagogical analysis, composed by different units of investigation and sustained by thirty years of studies developed by the laboratory concerning the impacts of the introduction of information technology in education. A fundamental issue that goes beyond the mere access to information technology is how to take advantage of the richness of possibilities and environments enabled by digital media to help human and social development. Society is changing from Industrial Era to Information Era. However, the knowledge and values transmitted by ongoing education are still replicating the old industrial paradigm by using massive methods of teaching. In order to overcome these barriers and turn students the real authors of their knowledge, LEC has created the Learning Projects Methodology. Brazilian educational system, based on National Curricular Guidelines, enables flexibility of organization and management. Each school can create its own Political and Pedagogical Plan, integrating communities of teachers, coordinators, parents and students. This context makes the country a fertile field to innovate educational practices. The National Curricular Guidelines are aligned with the perspective of knowledge construction: they define as curricular contents concepts, attitudes and skills, emphasizing aspects such as expression, cooperation and communication. The Learning Projects Methodology not only modifies the school routine, but also changes the paradigm of a secular educational institution. It considers the student the center of the learning process and marks the passage from an instructionist model of education to a pedagogy focused on the students’ real interests. When creating learning projects, on the contrary to what happens in traditional classes, students choose the topics to be studied, based on their own needs and motivations, and the issues are worked in an interdisciplinary way. They share productions and become agents instead of receivers, “learning to learn” and think. Teachers, in turn, replace the role of transmitters of information by the role of students’ advisors and partners, encouraging interaction and the development of different concepts. Several researches conducted at LEC based on this methodology have demonstrated its success and benefits to children. The adoption of XO, together with an appropriate pedagogical and methodological basis, is a powerful initiative to help changing traditional education, bringing along several possibilities to develop intelligence, competences and solidarity.


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