Education

How to Stop XO Laptop Theft by Students in School

Posted on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:08

From the São João secondary school on the island of São Tomé and Príncipe, Beth Santos writes the following in her post So Much to Say, So Little Energy:

There are students that are stealing computers now. If they are stealing them permanently or if they are just taking them home for the night without permission, I do not know. But I do know that some students are bringing backpacks to school and secretly slipping the computers into the backpacks.

One Mouse Per Child

Posted on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 00:02

red mouse green mouse orange mouse blue; the one you choose is up to youMuch popular attention has been paid to the so-called "$100 laptop" initiative and other programs to provide "1-to-1 educational computing" to students in developing countries. Even at $100 dollars per device, however, such solutions are still much too expensive for most communities around the world. Indeed, the typical scenario for computer use in schools in developing countries, and especially in rural areas, is for multiple children to crowd around one computer while one child controls the mouse, leaving the other children as onlookers.

What Works? 2010 OLE General Assembly in Kigali, Rwanda

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:51

The second annual OLE General Assembly to be held on 11-15 October in Kigali, Rwanda, will explore what is known, what needs to be known and how we can know about scalable approaches to achieving Quality Universal Basic Education with marginalized children around the world.

What Works?: 2010 OLE General Assembly
Exploring Scalable Approaches to Quality Universal Basic Education with Marginalized Children
Kigali, Rwanda, 11-15 October 2010
Register to attend/

Why?

How to Scale OLPC Teacher Training to Reach 43,000 Rwandan School Teachers?

Posted on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 08:24

I'm not a big fan of Train the Trainer methodologies to scale teacher training. I agree with Juliano Bittencourt, Learning Development Coordinator for OLPC Rwanda when he says:

Mapping the Future of Cities & Education

Posted on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 07:30

What does real-time mapping with New York City public school kids look like? Recently, Digital Democracy was invited to work with 120 young people from all 5 boroughs as part of the Department of Education’s “Future Now” program. Having gone through the NY Public School system myself, I jumped at the opportunity to help them innovate. My task was to engage the kids in a conversation about what they’d like to see in the year 2020. Future Now is creating NYC’s Digital Storybook – a citywide youth project about school, community, and dreams.

EVOKE Reflections: Results from the World Bank's on-line educational game (part 2)

Posted on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 05:19

some reflections from EVOKE
On March 3, 2010, the World Bank Institute (WBI) and infoDev launched EVOKE, an online alternate reality game with the goal of supporting social innovation among young people around the world.

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