[IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

[george pope]

Re. Item 3. OLPC Bahamas

You request only 2 laptops? Think that reflects how costly it is to
bring computers to poor students.

I know a primary school in Accra with about a 1000 students. It is
divided into 5 schools. Kanda Primary # 5 is one of these serving this
working class district of the city. It was selected for an XO trial 2
years ago. The wireless server went down in the fall 0f '09. I found a
lunux guy to come with me to see about this. We didn't know that it
had been taken some place to be worked on. Now I've returned to
California and neither my Linux engineer friend (who I think works
mostly on bank problems) nor school officials have returned my email.

Never the less this years 3rd grade teacher and lasts year's do not
have  email..I'm sure because money. They do remain enthusiastic about
their olpc trial.

Your Bahama students have D averages. About half of Ghana children do
not attend primary school because they have to "help support their
families". There are stories in the press of the police apprehending
18 wheelers full of children being taken to work on plantations
sometimes to other countries. One hears many similar stories.

I think that you are spot on trying to bring XOs to your students. The
idea of students LEARNING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS through on line
collaboration is part of the solution of getting out of this economic
mess.

But it will cost.

Get 200 rotating XOs for one fifth of Kanda students US $32000
Hypothetical factory price in China or Tiawan? plus shipping.

5 sugarized desk tops per class room, 6 grades, #1-#5 kanda primaries $18000

1000 soas pin drives, $10000. These are needed to allow students to
"own" their own share in the problems that they help solve.

Comes out to about US $60000. This does not include to cost of a
volunteer tech support persons.

But in Ghana the number of primary school students plus the children
who ought to be in school probably pushes a million.

we have to start some place. good luck

george pope

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>  1. SaigonOLPC - Somerville, Massachusetts & Vietnam
>  2. Columbus School for Girls requesting broken XOs for parts - Ohio
>  3. OLPC Bahamas
>  4. Amadou Basse Sall Primary School OLPC Edu Prjct - Dagana, Senegal
>  5. Lap-Swap: Integrating Technology for Education - Tempe, Arizona
>  6. Ntugi/UCC: Kenya, Canada
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> * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
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> 1. SaigonOLPC - Somerville, Massachusetts & Vietnam
>   http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63763
>   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
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>   Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 2 months
>
>   Project Objectives:
>   Improve children?s education and their skills at Ba
>   Chieu Shelter in Saigon.  Phase two is needed to follow up on how
>   actively girls are using the Xos and how much should be taught to them
>   to make them feel comfortable to sue XO in everyday life.
>   Ba Chieu Shleter is a role model for other Shelter in the city
>   It is a pilot project in the South of Vietnam, a part of Vietnam OLPC
>   project.  This project is important in building OLPC community and
>   raising awareness of Open Source Software and XO laptops
>
>
> 2. Columbus School for Girls requesting broken XOs for parts - Ohio
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63782
>   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
>   Requests ? XOs
>
>   Project Objectives:
>   The main objective of this project is to interest and engage high school
>   girls in computer science through this hands-on, real-world, socially
>   relevant service learning project. Our school typically only fields
>   2-3 students in any given computer science class we offer, and they
>   are always the same 2-3 students. This project attracted over 40
>   students initially, which is almost 15% of our student body. The
>   service learning trip is the ?hook? I needed to interest many
>   students in something they might not otherwise discover.
>   By all accounts, our first trip was a phenomenal success, with many
>   girls now interested in pursuing programming or other computer science
>   work. This second year, I will require more hardware work from the
>   students, so these broken laptops will help provide the equipment I need.
>
>
> 3. OLPC Bahamas
>   http://olpcbahamas.blogspot.com
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64038
>   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
>   Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 3-4 months
>
>   Project Objectives:
>   We have a serious lacking in the area of education here in the
> Bahamas. Our national average is a D+. I want to promote education
> through technology and give the Bahamas a new industry of computer savvy
> people working with technology and bringing us as a country into the
> 21st century.
>
>
> 4. Amadou Basse Sall Primary School OLPC Edu Prjct - Dagana, Senegal
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64118
>   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
>   Requests 30 XOs over 24 months
>
>   Project Objectives:
>   - Provide school children with access to computer understanding and usage
>   - Use computers for pedagogical purposes
>   - Stimulate exchanges with another local school as well as enhance the
>     current pedagogical cooperation with a French primary school based in
>     Britanny (29920 Nevez France)
>     Headmistress: Mrs Dominique Puloch
>   - Capitalize on computing skills of one of the schools? head masters who
>     will train the school teachers
>   - Take advantage of the existing limited computing infrastructure: 4 PCs
>     with internet access
>   - Involve pupils? parents through allowing the children to bring XOs
>     home for their homework
>   - Stimulate Information exchanges within the local community*: town
>     administration, welfare center? on topics related to nutrition, health:
>     protection against malaria, schistosomiasis or vision deficiencies.
>     These diseases are a major issue in the region and lead amongst other
>     problems to school absenteeism.
>   - Helping families suffering from poverty and low education level with
>     administrative tasks, making XO an essential tool: The children, with
>     the help of their school teachers, will help the family write a letter
>     or a request for example. The draft could be sent through the Internet,
>     thanks to the PCs we have.
>
>
> 5. Lap-Swap: Integrating Technology for Education - Tempe, Arizona
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64161
>   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
>   Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
>
>   Project Objectives:
>   My business concentrates on on-site IT support for local
>   homeowners and small business owners. Over the years I have
> discovered that
>   when a laptop dies or becomes outdated to a customer's needs,
> customers wish
>   to just replace the hardware rather than repair old technology. These
>   laptops are discarded, where they could be re-used by local schools
> or other
>   non-profitable sanctions. More importantly however, I have identified a
>   unique opportunity to donate a portion of my profits to a cause I truly
>   believe in, OLPC. For each "Swap" I generally earn approximately $300-350
>   for delivering the hardware, setup, data transfer, software installation,
>   and network setup. I believe that a portion (~$75) can be donated per
>   "Lap-Swap" in an effort to donate one laptop per every 2-3 Lap-Swaps I
>   perform in the field. Additionally, older hardware can be donated for
>   re-distribution to local needy organizations such as lower-income schools
>   and cooperating non-profits. This plan should help all stakeholders
> involved
>   as described below:
>
>   . Business owners (myself) - I receive a profit to continue business
>     and an incentive for customers to adopt my service
>
>   . Clients (my customers) - Receive quality customer service and
>     hardware, a tax write-off on their donated hardware, and the
> knowledge that
>     they are helping a worthy cause
>
>   . Beneficiaries from donations (the children that receive the
>     laptops) - Beneficiaries receive hardware on a monthly donated
> basis; my
>     hope is to increase this to many laptops per month
>
>   . The surrounding community and environment (donations of modern
>     computers and safe disposal of used electronics) - I safely dispose of
>     unusable hardware to avoid landfills absorbing the impact and
> donate/repair
>     usable hardware for donation to local agencies
>
>   . Society as a whole (tax generation and general advancement of human
>     intelligence through technology) - Taxes from my business support my
>     community and hopefully a new understanding of the technology and
> education
>     cycle is adopted. Human intellectual advancement through
> technologies such
>     as computers is my ultimate goal.
>
>
> 6. Ntugi/UCC: Kenya, Canada
>   http://www.ntugischool.com
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64188
>   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
>   Requests 10 XO-1.5s over 10 months
>
>   Project Objectives:
>   We hope to purchase 100 1.5's later this year, 50 of which will go to
>   Ntugi in Kenya, and 50 of which will be used in the ICS3U computer
>   science course here at UCC. In preparation for that...
>   1) We want to test out the 1.5's here in Toronto
>   2) We hope to take all 10 laptops to Kenya on July 13th to work on
> the following:
>   - Measure the data pull at the newly constucted computer lab and outreach
>     centre at Ntugi
>   - Use Vernier sensors to develop shared curriculum in Biology,
>     Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Studies
>   - Determine how to install USB microscopes on the 1.5 for use in both
>     Canada and Kenya
>   - Expand blogging to include regular video blogging and creative-writing
>     co-blogging between our two schools
>   - Use Google Docs shared spreadsheets to share science data and analysis
>     measured on the ground in both our locations
>   - Explore the potential of the 1.5 for using Java applets and
> applications
>     for simulation and analysis in Science
>   - Expand of the 'Horizons' mentoring program to bring Ntugi secondary
>     students to the two local primary schools in anticipation of the
>     repurposing of the current 30 XO 1.0's
>   - Explore the potetnial of the 1.5 for use with USB GPS and Google Earth.
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