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Some theory on emergent design and high quality education:
Some theory on emergent design and high quality education:


* [[Media:Emergent Design, David Cavallo.pdf| Emergent Design]], by [[user:cavallo|David Cavallo]], VP of Learning
* [[Media:Emergent Design, David Cavallo.pdf| Emergent Design]], by [[user:cavallo|David Cavallo]],
* [[Media:Need for high quality education, Part 1.doc| "Need for high quality education", part 1]] and [[Media:Laptops and High-quality education part 2.doc|part 2]], by David Cavallo
* [[Media:Need for high quality education, Part 1.doc| "Need for high quality education", part 1]] and [[Media:Laptops and High-quality education part 2.doc|part 2]], by David Cavallo
* An [[Media:Learning Manual.pdf| OLPC Learning Guide]], by the Learning Team
* An [[Media:Learning Manual.pdf| OLPC Learning Guide]], by the Learning Team

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One Laptop per Child is an education project, not a laptop project. With connected laptops, learners are liberated to actively engage with others with similar interests in cultures of learning by doing without being limited by time or space. Children can learn by teaching, actively assisting other learners and freeing the teacher to focus her experience and expertise where most needed. (see also: education philosophy)

The OLPC Learning Team is currently in Kigali, Rwanda, developing a Center for Laptops & Learning in partnership with the Kigali Institute of Science & Technology (KIST).

Other related events and learning workshops are captured here on the wiki. A learning workshop overview was published in 2009.


Background for educators

Some theory on emergent design and high quality education:

Classroom Resources

  1. Lesson 1, Alphabet
  2. Lesson 2, Alphabet, cont.
  3. Lesson 3, Learning numbers with dice
  4. Lesson 4, Numbers with dice, cont.
  5. Lesson 5, Counting
  6. Lesson 6, Subtraction
  7. Lesson 7, Numeric Order
  8. Lesson 8, A counting table
  9. Lesson 9, Shapes/
  10. Lesson 10, Rebuilding a mosaic

Resources developed by community groups: from Hello Laptop, from Plan Ceibal, from Peru.

Ideas and Examples

The Learning Team has published a weekly challenge to all XO students through the New Times Newspaper. For a full listing, see XO Time.

In 2009, one group of students became journalists. Six teams from Kagugu Primary School named, designed and created their own newspapers. This allowed some to express their creativity, learn about different research, investigatory methods, better understand sentence development and structure. Newspapers they created:

Shapes examples to use.

Use Turtle Art or Scratch and see if you can create these shapes. The sheet includes both simple and complex shapes, increasing in order of complexity. There is a challenge there for everyone! The more complex shapes are often made up of combinations of the simpler ones.<ref>Examples drawn from [[w:Barry Newell's Turtle Confusion|]] (1988) </ref>

How can I get involved?

Create an account on the OLPCWiki and leave us questions or comments!

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. Familiarize yourself with our ideas about content and collaboration, and the various Creative Commons licenses. As a rule, we want educational materials produced for and connected with OLPC to be free and open source.

  • If you or your school want to work with XOs in the classroom (and don't yet have any), see the page for Interested schools.
  • Add yourself, or your organization, to the educator Roll Call page.


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 and writing to content@laptop.org.

Create activities and collections

School stories and case studies

Porto Alegre
OLPC Brazil
Galadima
OLPC Nigeria
Ban Samkha
OLPC Thailand
Porto Alegre is the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Galadima is a hamlet in Abuja, Nigeria
File:Hiking02.jpg
Ban Samkha is a rural village in northern Thailand
Cardal
OLPC Uruguay
Arahuay
OLPC Peru
Khairat school
OLPC India
Villa Cardal is a small town in Uruguay
Arahuay is a small town in Peru
Khairat is a remote village in Maharashtra, India



Comments

"Pupils go even beyond what I can teach in the class. It's a very interesting thing to use. I personally have a better idea about teaching... We discovered that giving them time to discover something and to do it in their own way, they feel more happy and they are so excited in using it that, 'Yes, I discovered it! Yes, I can get it!! Yes, I can do this on my own!!!' Teaching is getting more interesting and less stressful." — Mr. O., Galadima School, Abuja, Nigeria