[IAEP] use of XOs

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Dave

On 04/25/2016 09:17 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi Tony
>
> Would you be willing to post this wonderful email to the group thread? :)
>
>
> On 24 April 2016 at 21:11, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net 
> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Dave
>
>     I hope you can continue your quest for information on how XOs are
>     used in deployments.
>
>     (edited)
>
>     The strategic need is to establish direct communication with folks
>     at these deployments to get first-hand information. This direct
>     communication can put the community in direct contact with the
>     user community and help us provide more relevant capabilities.
>
>     I think this is going to be a deployment-by-deployment process.
>
>     I received this in a communication from Anish Mangal:
>
>     If the issue is about XO's then perhaps contacting Prof. Nagarjuna
>     and Rafikh from TIFR, Bombay might yield something, as they have a
>     deployment in the city and another near it.
>
>     And this you may remember from Walter:
>
>     I know nothing about G1G1 Round Two but the laptops from the first
>     round went to many more places than just Mongolia. For example, it
>     was from that program that the first batch of laptops went to
>     Caacupé in Paraguay, a program that continues to be robust today.
>
>     Caryl Bigenho has supported a deployment at a shelter in Los
>     Angeles where the residents are not allowed access to the
>     internet. I haven't heard much on this recently.
>
>     The webpage is a good start
>     (https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts). However, it
>     is connected to the local labs program. You may want to find out
>     from Walter about its current status. The idea died aborning
>     because under our agreement with the Conservancy, Sugar Labs was
>     not permitted to establish subsidiary groups. So I think the wiki
>     effort should be independent of that initiative.
>
>     We also need a format where we can gather significant information
>     - perhaps a link from this page to a page per deployment. The key
>     in each case is to have a local contact (e.g. email address) where
>     we can get direct answers to questions as they come up and propose
>     capabilities which may be of help. The questions we need answered
>     go far beyond whether XOs are used inside a classroom or
>     elsewhere. For example, if users are allowed to take laptops away
>     from the institution, what has been the impact on wear and tare.
>     If users 'own' the laptop; how does the institution replace them
>     for incoming students.
>     How has the Uruguay Plan Ceibal impacted learning in later grades
>     - e.g. in readiness to use computers effectively in secondary
>     school learning. The list could go on.
>
>     Tony
>     Tony
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Dave

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