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Welcome

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. In this way children can learn by teaching, actively assisting other learners and thereby liberating the teacher to focus her experience and expertise where most needed. Computers also facilitate appropriation of knowledge in domains difficult to comprehend with other static, non-connected materials. Teachers benefit as well as not only do they get to use the laptops at home for their own learning, but the connected laptop becomes a conduit for customized professional development enabling the teachers to gain access to expertise and colleagues, to pose and respond to practical questions.

Moreover, with mobile, connected laptops the walls of the classroom open and the entire community becomes the classroom and virtually the whole world enters on demand. The children carry the classrooms and teachers of the world with them through the community and into their homes. Children can participate in the study of global issues while simultaneously using local context for understanding. They can fully participate as producers of knowledge and not just as consumers of materials produced by others.

You can follow the work of the learning team on the OLPC blog: laptop.blog.org, or below:

Getting Started

Emergent Design by Dr. David Cavallo, VP of Learning, OLPC

"Need for high quality education" by Dr. David Cavallo, VP of Learning, OLPC

"Need for high quality education, part 2" by Dr. David Cavallo, VP of Learning, OLPC

OLPC Learning Guide by OLPC Learning Team

Learning Overview by Juliano Bittencourt for OLPCorps teams

How to get involved?

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Trial schools

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
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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

"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


Schools who want to work with XOs in the classroom (and don't yet have any) should go to Interested schools.