Educators

Welcome

This is the main organizational page for the OLPC educator community. It is a work in progress.

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.

Where to Start

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 the various Creative Commons licenses, since we want all of the educational material produced for and connected with the project to be free and open source.

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, for an in-depth view of the features of the XO that pertain directly to the development of educational activities.
• Contribute to our collection of story-based learning activities.
• Create a new activity, either with an activity template or entirely from scratch.

Projects

There are a number of ways to become involved with the OLPC project:

• Share ideas for innovative educational uses of the laptops (see background material on constructionist education)
• Share ideas for educational content that could be distributed on the laptops or to OLPC's partner countries (see below)
• Share ideas for educational activities and lessons that could make use of the laptops in one of their many capacities;
• Help modify and package existing content for use on the laptops;
• Test early-stage laptops and content modules, and provide feedback on teacher and student experiences
• Contribute to a Wikibook text in progress, such as the WikiJunior books
• Contribute articles to Simple English Wikipedia. Information in simple English will be critical to these new learners.

See Activating educators for additional project ideas and organizational principles.

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