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<CanoeBerry> Speakere Mike Dawson beginning! <CanoeBerry> Audio only, via Skype. <CanoeBerry> Live from Afghanistan. <ntt> Talking about content (curriculm and health0 <CanoeBerry> ntt: thanks for scribing! <ntt> Content must be locally relevant <ntt> CanoeBerry: np <ntt> Two standard responses to XO demonstration: 1. Neat toy 2. This is useless <ntt> *garbled* <ntt> Giving people ideas for what they want <ntt> Taken Afghan curriculum (math, sci., religion) added games, audio <ntt> Basis for blended leaning experience <ntt> Learning at home and school important. <ntt> Assess need and reality yourself. <ntt> *garbled <ntt> Assessed: Startling time deficit in Afghanistan <ntt> 410 hours = school year in Afg. <ntt> So many kids, teaching in shifts, teachers can't even mark homework <ntt> Not effective. <ntt> Pitch: <ntt> "you have so little time to do stuff, the laptop does that for you" <ntt> Don't expect magic attitudes, expect magic issues sans magic answers. <ntt> Enhanced frontpage-like elearning generator <ntt> eXe Learning <ntt> saves files as HTML + JS <CanoeBerry> http://paiwastoon.af/eldep <CanoeBerry> "eXe Learning DHTML Educ Game/Activity Plugins" <ntt> carol ruth silver: people want link to it <ntt> eXelearning.org is probably in english <CanoeBerry> Avoid eXelearning.org <CanoeBerry> Stale site. <ntt> That version won't have the formats we made here <ntt> *garbled* website for that <CanoeBerry> Instead use: http://paiwastoon.af/eldep <ntt> mike@paiwastoon.com.af to contact <ntt> Constructionism is a spectrum <ntt> Rote ----------------- Handing out XO sans teacher <ntt> Once time issue is dealed with, <ntt> Health activity exis*garbled* <ntt> When it goes inside the house it really does have an impact <ntt> someone: "When I saw these pictures on the XO I always wash my hands now cooking" <ntt> If you spend ~300 on XO program when you could have used penicil, paper, training <ntt> you haven't helped you've hurt <ntt> We have to grapple with this <ntt> Getting XO on low income is hard <ntt> *garbled* <ntt> If we don't do that, we say no. <ntt> It's not the right way to spend $ <ntt> We can get better outcomes with the cheaper methods <ntt> Cognition, creativity, stability, anti-insurgency <ntt> You can't look at a control school with nothing. <ntt> If you spend $300 on laptops and compare to no funding <ntt> Not valid <ntt> Question <ntt> Do you have sample text/charts/pages describing this <ntt> Link, uh, there are a couple of resources <CanoeBerry> Plz all join us for our COMMUNITY/FAMILY PHOTO in Rm 553, soon after 4:30! <ntt> Handbook for monitoring in ICT about 300 pages long <ntt> Also, USAID has frameworks for assessment <ntt> I think what I was saying *garbled* <ntt> Upload notes to olpcsf.org <ntt> Hans Roslin, epidemiologist for doctors without border said at TEDc <ntt> *x <ntt> Greatest impact is 15-10 year earlier increase in female education <ntt> Not very optimal <ntt> Stuff like fertility control <ntt> also hygiene <ntt> If you had a wishlist for content (</irony>) to address education for girls <ntt> First problem: It's harder for girls to go away for significant periods of time. <ntt> Lack of role models. <ntt> Access to quality educ. exp. <ntt> most important thing: Bring into the house <ntt> Give girls, boys equal access <ntt> Girls still need to know critical thinking, maths, science <ntt> *garbled* <ntt> Get female teachers up to scratch <ntt> Training training training <ntt> In terms of health materials <ntt> Simple interactive stuff about hygiene, birth control... sensitive. do locally. <ntt> Lots of paper content <ntt> Problem: When people make static content it does not lead to that behavioral change <ntt> *garbled* <ntt> Creating interactive materials: feedback <ntt> more effective <ntt> Unfortunately not much can be done remotely <ntt> Microfinance <ntt> We did survey of microfinance institutions: goal: microfinance matching app <ntt> I'm 30yo need $x do to y" <ntt> Educating potential clients <ntt> Collegue disbelieved <ntt> If you prematch people to institutions that will support them <ntt> each institution has rules <ntt> Sending peopel to the right place * ntt is getting carpal tunnel typing this <ntt> Get abstracts from Pubmed <ntt> doctor's database <ntt> Best story to illustrate issue <ntt> Someone called fire station <ntt> there's a leaking fuel tank <ntt> Fire department says "what's it made out of" <ntt> metal <ntt> You should get a welder to weld it shut <ntt> Where do babies come from <ntt> Fixing common misconceptions <ntt> snopes focused on medical stuff <ntt> *garbled* <ntt> E <ntt> Beth Santos presenting <ntt> Etoys presentation on health curriculum <ntt> Potable Water <ntt> It's a colouring book in eToys, animated <ntt> Alright back to Mike * agordon (~gordon@sfs-wifi-aruba-dhcp-130-212-151-2.sfsu.edu) has joined #olpc-553 <ntt> Ran through this slideshow under <ntt> talknicer.com/olpcsf.ppt <ntt> speach recog. <ntt> to teach reading <ntt> On low end equip <ntt> Optimally: 2:1 student:teacher ratio <ntt> Pessimally: 5:1 <ntt> No doubts that people want to learn to read <ntt> JULIUS <ntt> hidden markov model <ntt> Can take speech > text, but usually for C2 <ntt> If we convert from triphones to diphones <ntt> Save space, RAM <ntt> also easier to do <ntt> Trying to get web to have mic upload <ntt> Flash uses Speex <ntt> Help Gnash <CanoeBerry> 5 more min extension! <ntt> You can do access <ntt> dialect, etc <ntt> There's a patent. <ntt> ONLY do a reading tutor <ntt> if you make a speech tutor <ntt> librivox.org <ntt> voxforge.org <CanoeBerry> Photo After 4:35 :) <ntt> Jim@talknicer.com