Educators

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Welcome

One Laptop per Child is an education project, not a laptop project. Our goal is to provide children with access to libraries of knowledge, ideas, experiments, and art — to provide a window into the world, with examples and references on which to build.

How to get involved?

• 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.
• Familiarize yourself with our ideas about content and collaboration, and the various Creative Commons licenses. As a rule, we want educational materials produced for and connected with OLPC to be free and open source.
• Visit our Contributors program page.
• Create an account on the OLPCWiki!
• Visit our sister organization, Sugar Labs and join their wiki.
• Add yourself, or your organization, to the educator Roll Call page.
• Add an educator user box to your user page, which will add you to Category:Educators.
• Create an educational organization page for your organization, group, or school.
• Find a project that excites you.

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.
• Explore our repository of activity outlines and lesson plans.
• Contribute to our collection of story-based learning activities.
• Create a new activity, either based on one of our sample learning activities or entirely from scratch.

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	File:Hiking02.jpg 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.