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one laptop per child
One Laptop per Child
Walter Bender
12 March 2008
one laptop per child
“Technology is anything invented after you were born.”—Alan Kay
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one laptop per child
a global transformation of educationIt's about giving children who don't have the
opportunity for learning that opportunity: so it's about access; it's about equity; and it's about giving the next generation of children in the developing world a bright and open future.
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children lack opportunity, not capability1. High-quality education for every child is
essential to provide an equitable and viable society;
2. A connected laptop computer is the most powerful tool for knowledge creation;
3. Access on a sufficient scale provides real benefits for learning.
one laptop per child
one laptop per child
one laptop per child
one laptop per child
a vaccine is an agent of change.
Jonas Salk made the analogy between education reform and immunology: both require scale and reach in order to be successful.
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a connected laptop is not a cure
but it is an agency through which children, their teachers, their families, and their communities can manufacture a cure.
They are tools with which to think, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, and mathematics.
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three traits we humans all share
1. we learn (and teach);
2. we express; and
3. we are social.
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an expression machine
1. appropriate;
2. debug;
3. collaborate and critique.
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five principles
1. child ownership—use of the laptop at home;
2. low ages—ages 6 to 12—low floor, no ceiling;
3. saturation and
4. connection—collaborative and community;
5. free and open—the child is an active participant in a global learning community.
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in mathematics, our children live in a “linguistic desert.”—MinskyThe typical vocabulary of school-mathematics is
remarkably small: children learn some nouns and verbs—such as addition, fraction, quotient, divisor, rectangle, parallelogram, and cylinder, equation, variable, function, and graph.
It isn’t enough just to learn nouns; one also needs adequate adjectives: linear; discrete; isomorphic; etc.
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looking beyond instruction:
expressing,
constructing,
designing,
modeling,
imagining,
creating,
critiquing,
debugging,
collaborating
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exploring, expressing, and sharingweb browserebook readerchatrich media / music / video
games
word processingJournalwikigraphics; rich media creation
programming:Logo; Etoys; Scratch; Python; Csound; Forth; Javascript
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“let them have cell phones”
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ZoomInterface
friends view
home view
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Collaborative InterfaceWe leverage the mesh network to enable collaborative learning—the presence of children and teachers as collaborators and critiques is always present in the interface.
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Journal
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Transparency is empowering. Free and open-source software (and content) gives children—and their teachers— the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply.
appropriate to appropriate
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Technological incumbency —Calestous Juma
“Resistance to new technologies is strongest when it is perceived that the negative impacts will emerge in the short-run while the benefits will be realized in the long-run. The central policy challenge therefore is how to manage the interactions between new technologies and incumbent social and economic systems.”
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Frederick the Great re coffee
“It is disgusting to see the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country… If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were his ancestors. Many battles have been fought and won on soldiers nourished on beer; and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be depended upon to ensure hardship or to beat his enemies in case of the occurrence of another war.”
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Juma’s “lessons from history”
perceptions of risks and benefits
demonization and prohibition
innovation and problem-solving
compatibility with tradition
threats to social order
trade and trust
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Sometimes the riskiest path is the status quo.
Hassounah