Educators

Welcome

One Laptop per Child is an education project, not a laptop project. While much of our effort over the last few years has been devoted to bringing the XO laptop into existence, the laptop is simply a means to an end-- a revolution in how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Already, hundreds of laptops have been distributed to children in pilot schools around the world. This summer, the final "B4" beta-test laptop 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. This page is designed to help you get started.

Highlights

OLPC Brazil	OLPC Nigeria	OLPC Uruguay	OLPC Thailand
Porto Alegre is the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Galadima is a hamlet in Abuja, Nigeria	Villa Cardal is a small town in Uruguay	File:Hiking02.jpg Ben Samkha is a rural village in northern Thailand

"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

Vision

The OLPC vision for learning is based on three basic beliefs:

1. Learning and high-quality education for all is essential to provide a fair, equitable, economically and socially viable society;
2. Access to mobile laptops on a sufficient scale provide real benefits for learning and dramatic improvement of education on a national scale;
3. So long as computers remain unnecessarily expensive, such potential gains remain a privilege for a select few.

By providing our most powerful tool for knowledge creation, development, and discovery to children and their teachers with sufficient time and support to enable fluency, and development, and by providing high-bandwidth connectivity to enable the development of knowledge communities, we now have the means to address seemingly intractable and critically important educational issues.

Continue reading about our vision for learning here...

Vision

• 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)

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

what else? 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.

Categories from mmm.org

Play to learn - creative games - science sims - casual games

Learn to build - designing - programming - multimedia

Explore together - my planet - in class - at home

Exchange ideas - for peace - kids gallery - community blog