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AGENDA:<br>
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* Sunday's 9PM EST Philippines
Deployment Report, Live!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2011-March/001735.html">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2011-March/001735.html</a><br>
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* Fast Review of the 6 latest
(greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please<br>
join us advocating for, and/or
reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:<br>
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1. Conectate, Juega Y Aprende / Get
Connected, Play & Learn - Ecuador<br>
2. Ubuntu Pace Academy Learning Lab -
Atlanta, Georgia / South Africa<br>
3. Planting an OLPC seed in West Papua
- Indonesia / United Kingdom<br>
4. Ndoombo Orphanage and widow center -
Tanzania / Tonawanda, New York<br>
5. NOAH-Havergal Initiative - South
Africa / Toronto, Canada<br>
6. Science in Their Hands, Right
Livelihood Practices - Kenya<br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy
Mentoring below?!<br>
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* New projects & libraries --
teaching them Community Outreach:<br>
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1. Conectate, Juega Y Aprende / Get
Connected, Play & Learn - Ecuador<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75970">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75970</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
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Requests 30 XOs over 36 months<br>
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Project Objectives: (excerpt)<br>
The main objective of our project
consists in introducing the benefits<br>
of computerization, to children
between the ages of 8 and 12 years, who<br>
until now, had been deprived of this
educational tool (the computer) due<br>
to the lack of financial
possibilities of the parents and
teachers.<br>
We can assure you that the results of
our project will become tangible<br>
in a short period of time, and from
these results, not only the children<br>
will become the beneficiaries, but
also the community where they belong,<br>
the same, as we expect, will evolve
under the influence of the technical<br>
advancement we pretend to introduce
to a generation who, in the future,<br>
will dictate the direction of the
community.<br>
<br>
By educating these children’s minds
and providing them with a means of<br>
world integration, we are trying to
eradicate poverty, since these<br>
children, when adults, will be
willing to establish industries and<br>
activities which will generate
employment, therefore improving the way<br>
of living of a region of this planet,
that although eager in willingness<br>
for progress, it had been left
forgotten by its government always<br>
struggling by financial burdens.<br>
Ignorance and poverty as well as
education and progress go hand on hand.<br>
<br>
<br>
2. Ubuntu Pace Academy Learning Lab -
Atlanta, GA / South Africa<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76000">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76000</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 100 XOs over 12+ months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
The Ubuntu PAL Lab well serve as an
educational<br>
resource and high-impact charitable
opportunity to transform the lives of<br>
deserving South African students who,
despite great hardships are prepared<br>
to use education to create a positive
vision of their futures. The Ubuntu<br>
PAL Lab is a response by Pace Academy
students to the educational needs<br>
they witnessed first hand in
downtrodden Eastern Cape townships of
Port<br>
Elizabeth.<br>
<br>
The Ubuntu PAL Lab will be used in
the spirit of Ubuntu - A person is a<br>
person through other people - to
expand Ubuntu’s educational initiatives<br>
to invest in the emerging youth
leaders to give them the tools they need<br>
to be successful in the workforce,
politics and the opportunity to work in<br>
the field of their own choosing. In
addition the latest educational tools,<br>
such as the laptops.<br>
<br>
<br>
3. Planting an OLPC seed in West Papua -
Indonesia / United Kingdom<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76313">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76313</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 35 XOs over undetermined
months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
This project will introduce OLPC to
West Papua. After an intense 6-week<br>
introduction it will be sustained by
local inhabitants and support via<br>
the Internet. In addition to planting
and nurturing an OLPC seed in a<br>
part of the world with no prior
exposure to OLPC, our project will<br>
explore the challenges of building a
sustained pilot after only six<br>
weeks of face-to-face interactions
with an expert.<br>
<br>
Another objective is to explore the
ideas for projects described in<br>
Marvin Minsky’s essay OLPC Memo 5:
Education and Psychology. He<br>
describes many possible projects that
“provide our children with ideas<br>
they could use to invent their own
theories about themselves”. He<br>
suggests that cybernetic thinking
(i.e. understanding complex processes,<br>
for example, feedback loops) can
provide children with productive ways<br>
of thinking about their own thinking
and learning. Learning a good<br>
programming language can lead to
understanding computational concepts<br>
that are otherwise difficult to
learn.<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Ndoombo Orphanage and widow center -
Tanzania / Tonawanda, New York<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76960">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76960</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 10 XOs over 21 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
To provide learning opportunities for
children and training<br>
opportunities teachers • To provide
low cost access to information<br>
for news, weather, school projects
and to web conference with schools<br>
that have olpc <br>
<br>
Our local partners Participating
institutions are: Jane Orphange<br>
Ngarmtoni, Arusha School, Braubaern
School, Children for Children<br>
Future (orphanage for street
children), Olepolos Children’s Centre,<br>
Ngaramtoni orphanage (90% girls) and
Ndoombo Orphan Centre Primary<br>
School, Duluti, Arusha. <br>
<br>
PROPOSAL Target group<br>
Our target group is underserved
children aged 4 – 15 years mostly<br>
attending rural schools, in urban
slums and orphanages. Family of the<br>
students selected to participate in
this project will also be<br>
indirectly impacted by this project.
The indirect impact has been<br>
explained in detail in an earlier
section.<br>
<br>
<br>
5. NOAH-Havergal Initiative - South
Africa / Toronto, Canada<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://noah-xo.blogspot.com">http://noah-xo.blogspot.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net?id=791001&km-distance=600">http://olpcMAP.net?id=791001&km-distance=600</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76986">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76986</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 10 XOs over 18 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
Our objective is to begin our pilot
project with the students at Havergal<br>
College. The students are to learn xo
software to then introduce the laptop<br>
to an Ark(NOAH's name for
communities) during their visit to South
Africa in<br>
August. Long term objective is to
have one laptop per child for each of
the<br>
arks.<br>
<br>
<br>
6. Science in Their Hands, Right
Livelihood Practices - Kenya<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67167">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67167</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 9 Xos for 2-3 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
To overcome the teacher’s resistance
to a technology, and a new way of<br>
learning. To help them see the
co-learning, exploratory process and<br>
guidance role they can play in well
structured XO science learning<br>
projects. <br>
<br>
To overcome their fear of using a
computer, and begin to see it as a way<br>
to alleviate some of their teaching
challenges (big classes, varying<br>
needs of students, engaging students
in activities, hands–on experiences). </div>
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