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Présentation OLPC France à l'école d'été de l'association La Main A La Pâte à Erice - Juillet 2008
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OLPC - communities and collaboration
International School on Mind, Brain and Education
Erice, July 16th 2008Bastien Guerry
Motivation and complexity
Misunderstandings?
Truth and relevance
Communities and openness dimensions
Communication: private vs. public
Content: proprietary vs. free
Gouvernance: cathedral vs. bazaar
Openness complexity: the model...
... the reality
Collaboration & motivationThe example of translation
Education and « free culture »
● Build sustainable communities● Use collaborative tools● Share content on the web
On all this points: educators can efficiently learn from the open source community...
Goals of the OLPC France community
● Host a repair center
● Give support to the implementation in french-speaking countries
● Gather (french-speaking) developers around specific projects
● Promote free pedagogical materials on the XO
● Let primary school teachers know about the XO, and work with developers
Ideas for OLPC France / LaMAP
● Spread LaMAP ideas and practices among open source developers so that they can figure out useful activities with the XO
● Build censors on the XO to explore the environment
● Develop a lab-book
● Develop a teacher-oriented activity to access LaMAP pedagogical content
● Create inquiry-based activities focusing on discovering the laptop itself