Creativity, Innovation and the One Laptop per Child Project
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How the One Laptop per Child project comes up with creative and innovative solutions to challenging problems by changing the constraints to the problems.
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Creativity, Innovation and the One Laptop per Child Project
- 1. Creativity, Innovation and the One Laptop per Child Project From around the world Presented at: Hillsdale High School Unless noted otherwise http://slideshare.net/sverma Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor Information Systems Dept San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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- 3. Changing constraints Computers without electricity? Internet in a briefcase? Fix your own laptops ? One does not simply...One does not simply...
- 5. Rural and Remote Bhagmalpur (भभागमलपपुर) village, District Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
- 6. Children and Learning Mira and Maya
- 7. Approximately thirty-five percent of the world is on the Internet Approximately sixty-five percent of the world is NOT on the Internet
- 9. OLPC San Francisco http://olpcsf.org Founder and Chief Organizer
- 11. Mission OLPC's mission is to empower the world's poorest children through education We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
- 12. Worldwide 40+ countries, 30+ languages, 3 million laptops, 350+ applications
- 13. Where no computers have gone before...
- 14. School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima
- 15. Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
- 16. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 19. Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School
- 29. West Bank, Palestine. UN Relief and Works Agency See http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml
- 30. 3 million + See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
- 31. Sugar Can we learn to learn? http://sugarlabs.org
- 32. Browse
- 33. Physics
- 34. TurtleArt
- 36. Measure
- 37. Languages Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba Approx. 100+ languages Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
- 40. AlGoreatTED
- 41. Server, to go
- 42. Can information flow like water? http://ltse.env.duke.edu/files/ltse/images/India%20Persian%20wheel%20irrigation%20Ganges%20Plain.jpg
- 43. A water “battery”. Can we build information batteries?
- 44. Viva La Revolución Can we spark a paradigm shift by providing equitable access to information all over the world?
- 47. Bulun Bazhy, Tuva http://olpctuva.wordpress.com
- 49. Crank-to-learn?
- 51. ...and around the world.
- 54. SFSU Lending Library Ask for the “White and Green children's laptop” ●48 hours for students ●2 weeks for faculty