OLPC Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar

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Ulaanbaatar.mn | Arahuay.pe | Khairat.in | Ban Samkha.th | Galadima.ng | Cardal and CEIBAL.uy | Bashuki.np | Bishwamitra.np | Atlas School.pk | Altos de Cazucá.co  [+/-]

First Implementation Phase

January 2008

Mongolian Children XOing (Photo by Carla)


OLPC team on the ground

  • Enkhmunkh Zurgaanjin (Dec 20 - Jan 27),
  • Carla Gomez Monroy (Jan 6 - 28),
  • Jan Jungclaus (Jan 7 - 26),
  • David Woodhouse (Jan 15 - 25),

Photos by Carla Gomez Monroy

Girl XOing
Boy XOing


Collaborating
Learning


Girls with XOs
Mother and children


Laptops at school
Receiving


Opening boxes
Learning together


Teacher and Child
Mother and Child
Exploring
Out-of-the-box Learning


Mother learning with her daughter
Exploring in class


Expressing
Friends taking a photo


Learning from each other
Self-portrait


Photo with classmates
Helping


Group discovering
Excitement


Amusement
Teacher session


Teachers exploring
Teachers learning together


Figuring out a laptop
Teacher sharing


Technical session
Team work


Exploring inside the laptop
Discovering together


Temperature test: outside -35C and inside +25C
While waiting


Traditional Mongolian gyr
Visiting student's gyr, close to the school


Getting laptop out of the backpack and plastic protecting bags
XOing inside his gyr

Photos by Jan Jungclaus

Urban Scenario Ulaan Bataar

School No. 4
Entering the school
Laptops reaching schools
Cabling to set up the servers


First activated laptop (right)
Teachers activating XOs
Parents' meeting


One Laptop per Child in Mongolian
Many excited children
The first G1G1 laptop is handed out to a child by the minister of education
Learning together
Laptops in classroom use
Happy girls
The first painting homework


View from school window: A gyr in the foreground
Student on his way home
Student's home gyr
Inside the gyr
Student working with XO at home

Countryside scenario

A few 100km of cemented road, then gravel
Countryside
Mongolian sanctuary "oovo"
Some remote areas provide electricity
A nomadic family's "gyr" (tent) with self-made TV antenna
A remote gyr during summertime (Aug '07)
The livelihood of a nomadic family is highly dependent on the well-being of their cattle
Goats provide milk and meat
The herdsman family's children live 1km from their school, which they might connect to with XO laptops in future