User talk:JZA
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Open Infrastructure
I want people to check out Open Infrastructure which I believe is the ripple effect of open source, open content, open hardware and now Infraestructure. So what is Infrastructure? Well the core of society... no not the family but the food. People create villages to get crops and feed themselves, which is what this project aim to solve taking the philosophies of Openness.
So what if the XO will have content and apps targeted to ignite this open infrastructure to elevate or at least lower the costs of basic things in society like the Village Construction Set.
The XO has some technologies and apps that could make this construction easier or at least used as digital interactive book which lower the cost of development.
Mapping the XO to the Education program
The eternal dilema of teaching people computers, versus teaching people with computers is something we need to spend time understanding.
OLPC is a great program to start solving this issue. The first step is to map the activities of the XO to the goals, and core activities that the XO already ships with. Not just develop tools but create dinamic learning activities that can get people to use the XO as a tool within a larger process.
XO is advanced in the sense it has a webcam a microphone, a display and connectivity. Connectivity however has proven to be the weakest link, but still there are many things that you can do with those 3 things.
There are other projects that can also help to link these tasks including:
- Research the study program from different countries
- Wikiversity in Wikipedia Foundation can help with that
- Understand the current collection of activities
- Understand the current excercises in school
- RE-think these tasks and invent new ones
--JZA 13:59, 18 June 2011 (UTC)