Education and development

A biweekly discussion group. For more, see agendas below and the talk page.

Upcoming meetings

April 2

Hot on the heels of our last meeting. A mini-agenda:

• existing networks of education enthusiasts and volunteers.
• following up on last week's theme : what are some of the great examples of development projects in education from the past, and where are they now?
• iCommons and OLPC projects in the near future to support local education creation
  • the iSummit this June - including workshops and online participation
• Speaker series : requests for fields and people

Previous gatherings

March 15

Speaker series. Who from education, economics, social development, technology?

• Cynthia B @ Media Lab

Attendance : promote through mailing lists, irc channels, other Berkman events

March 28

Related projects

Updates needed for...

• Tamilnet - what happened to one email per village?
• Motocar/oxcart nets in Cambodia - still in use?
• Similar Indian networks?
• Cell phone sharing entrepreneurs: #, impact?
• Voices from the Plain of Jars - from Laos

Seeds

• Learn about the world; other worlds and cultures. --> arts and culture, wikipedia, digital libraries
• Library interface: pass around catalogs
• Local kid-friendly materials: animals, locales,
• Literacy and numeracy

co-productions

• sesame: al manahil, plazax2, &c
• logo, squeak manuals
• unicef - child storytelling and sharing about their culture
• penpals -- easier for girls? photos make this better

Output

sharing and cultural id

• Media and oral histories
• collab record, by community
• minor languages and cultural preservation

...

• media and arts

empowering

• learning to learn and teach
• creative synthesis
• filling bounties, reputation and awards

Kid worries

• Stealing friends' laptop; breaking one and taking another. How to prove whose machine I am?
• Personalization: physical etching? Bring a laser etcher around school to school?
• How much can repersonalization happen?

Pairings/networks

• district, school to school
• student, teacher to teacher
• city, nation to nation

Ideas

Banks for bandwidth - nights and weekends

Animation, shadow puppet software

Postcards from Buster, as model

Video demonstration of what one might do with computers, next to a catalog and 'what do you like?' survey.