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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Marta, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Thank you again for elucidating the broader
issues around evaluating OLPC impact. I am going to keep these emails as
they are so well written and your points so well made. Let us all broadly
distribute this rich contribution. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I like your direction, not just a grant to
test, but to develop an system of evaluation for the 21st
century. As we are in fact implementing learning that doesn't fit
into the 19th century practices we inherited, It does go back
to Piaget. In Kenya many leading educators agree that the system of exams
and evaluation is failing Kenyan children, and that the system needs to
connect learning to life. The school population in Kenya is so large that
many children are being left behind. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>See the site <A
href="http://amstref.org">http://amstref.org</A> ... a Kenyan making math
relevant.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Sandra Thaxter<BR><A
href="http://www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org">www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org</A><BR><A
href="mailto:sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org">sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org</A><BR>(617)
320-1098</DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=marta@pensamentodigital.org.br
href="mailto:marta@pensamentodigital.org.br">Marta Voelcker</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sandra@thaxter.net
href="mailto:sandra@thaxter.net">'Sandra Thaxter'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RES: [Olpc-open] Fwd: Defining
success</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Hi Sandra and list, ( sorry for writing such a long message again
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>J</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US> )<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>I liked your comments! I have a suggestion<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>You wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"
lang=EN-US> What we need is a big grant to do
some field research and get the data. </SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>I would say: or, a system that would do that!
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>The system would keep versions of kids “productions”, and track
kids´ progress, and also kids´ attitudes to get to the final product
(collaboration, creativity, communication, leadership, initiative, problem
solving) … not easy , I know… but if technology allows that each learner
develops its own project, we should not evaluate all learners
with the same test or exam, should we? So we
need new systems of evaluation that might be based on kids productions and
peer review. Things like the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century skills could be used to
name some of the possible outputs, and there is research behind each one of
the skills to support the choose of criteria of success…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Another good point of developing a system instead of or besides
conducting a research is that the system would stay for the schools as
a resource to evaluate each child and keep their records through the
time, also a database for the educational system evaluate the
schools…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>But to do that there is the need of leaders (educational
system reps) that think on the use of technology to innovate
teaching and learning… I wonder what is the context on the deployments?
they probably respond to regular country/state evaluation? Do any
of them have as a clear goal to change and innovate on education? have they
defined what is this change and the criteria to identify new outputs?
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>At this moment, we have available the greatest technology ever made
to enable “the change” in education.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Change from traditional education ( 19<SUP>th</SUP> century) to the
currently desired education, which in fact, is a change that is desired since
the early decades of the 20<SUP>th</SUP> century, when child psychology
evolved (Dewey, Piaget) and many things happened – since that time there
are moves to renovate school , to prioritize teamwork, learning by
doing, problem solving , creativity… but that was an impossible thing to do by
the time that all students had to read the same book and go through the same
exercises and questions because only one teacher ( without technology) was not
able to guide a whole class of students with different motivation,
learning in a different pace and creating projects about the
subject…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>But now that technology could enable a systemic change on
education, I have the feeling that few people remember that desire of
change, or maybe they have tried so hard ( to change), before the
technology, that they gave up and don´t want to try anymore? Or maybe
few people understand “what is the change and why is it desired”... I´ve
been studying this lately and realized that there are so many things and
motivations involved. The willing for change is frequently present on National
or state standards or guidelines for education, but is not present on the kids
evaluation or assessment. There is an important need for teachers and
families to understand what are the outputs of the new
education.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Once reps from an educational system have the courage to say:
“ Yes we want to change! Let´s use technology to enable
change!”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Then it would be possible to think, develop and continuously
improve a system to evaluate attitudes, skills
development…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Or maybe not, maybe the system should be developed before,
and then shown to leaders ( educational system reps) to convince them to
experiment change (including change on evaluation using the new system)
</SPAN><B><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>?</SPAN></B><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Marta<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
olpc-open-bounces@lists.laptop.org [mailto:olpc-open-bounces@lists.laptop.org]
<B>Em nome de </B>Sandra Thaxter<BR><B>Enviada em:</B> segunda-feira, 30 de
janeiro de 2012 10:38<BR><B>Para:</B> Samuel Klein; olpc-open; Ahmed,
Farhan<BR><B>Cc:</B> bdmoss@ku.edu<BR><B>Assunto:</B> Re: [Olpc-open] Fwd:
Defining success<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Greetings
List,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
The question is what kind of evaluation of OLPC usage do we want, and what is
the most useful educational measure. </SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Document Activity
Usage: Are students accessing the XOs, how often, which
activities: this could be answered by pulling the XO data to the
school server and tablulating it. Not hard to do, however the value as
far as education isn't clear. Possibly why no one has done
that.</SPAN><o:p></o:p>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Document
Conventional School Testing for XO students: This means measuring
differences in the students performance on conventional
testing comparing students using XOs to those
without. These outcomes are useful for those of us making a
case for funding, but educationally only somewhat useful. Each
country organization might do this if they had sufficient funding to cover
the effort.</SPAN><o:p></o:p>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Long term
impact: Almost all sites are too young to measure long term impact,
which in the end is the best measurement.</SPAN><o:p></o:p>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This program is
learning through doing, through solving problems. The change in
attitude toward learning is the most important factor. This can be
measured by site visits, and inteviewing students and teachers.
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What we need is a big grant to do some field research and get the data.
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sandra
Thaxter<BR></SPAN><A href="http://www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org</SPAN></A><BR><A
href="mailto:sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org</SPAN></A><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(617)
320-1098</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From: "Samuel
Klein" <</SPAN><A href="mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">meta.sj@gmail.com</SPAN></A><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To: "olpc-open"
<</SPAN><A href="mailto:olpc-open@lists.laptop.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">olpc-open@lists.laptop.org</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>; "Ahmed,
Farhan" <</SPAN><A href="mailto:farhan.ahmed@chicagobooth.edu"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">farhan.ahmed@chicagobooth.edu</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">></SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cc: <</SPAN><A
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January 29, 2012 11:14 PM</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject:
[Olpc-open] Fwd: Defining success</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Replying to the
list.<BR><BR>On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Samuel Klein <</SPAN><A
href="mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">meta.sj@gmail.com</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> wrote:<BR>>
Hello to you both.<BR>><BR>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Ahmed,
Farhan<BR>> <</SPAN><A href="mailto:farhan.ahmed@chicagobooth.edu"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">farhan.ahmed@chicagobooth.edu</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Is there a methodology through which OLPC tracks
the concrete educational<BR>>> development a child goes through after he
or she gets access to a laptop? It<BR>>> seems that tracking a child's
progress over the years will allow OLPC to<BR>>> make substantial
scientific claims about its impact.<BR>><BR>> Agreed. There is no method
shared among all deployments; each<BR>> country/school system has their own
set of soft and hard measure of<BR>> development.<BR>><BR>>> I do
understand the limited effectiveness of<BR>>> quantifying "educational
development", but I'm sure there's a<BR>>> well-researched methodology
widely used.<BR>><BR>> I don't know that it is theoretically limited in
effectiveness;<BR>> however I am not aware of any single widely-used
methodology across<BR>> different cultures or systems.<BR>><BR>>>
Furthermore, with regard to the Sugar interface, is it enabled to
collect<BR>>> metrics on usage patterns (anonymized, of course)?
Information on how often<BR>>> certain activities are enabled and used,
the times of day a laptop sees most<BR>>> usage, the average data usage
(mesh or the internet) and other such metrics<BR>>> would allow more
targeted development and prioritization. Once again, I<BR>>> could not
find any such data on the website.<BR>><BR>> At a low technical level
there is some capability to gather data - for<BR>> instance all machines
'call home' once after they are turned on.<BR>> However beyond this it has
never been used to my knowledge to do so --<BR>> implementations so far
have privileged user privacy over research<BR>> efficacy. I would also love
to see (anonymized) collection of data as<BR>> you
describe.<BR>><BR>> Uruguay is the largest deployment that has gathered
comprehensive data<BR>> on what activities are used for how
long.<BR>><BR>> You can see theirs and other reports here:<BR>>
</SPAN><A href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_research"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_research</SPAN></A><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">><BR>>> My
motivation here is to understand how OLPC prioritizes it work and
backs<BR>>> its claims on the impact. I am doing this as part of a
research project I<BR>>> have undertaken at my university (The
University of Chicago Booth School of<BR>>> Business). I'd be happy to
answer any questions.<BR><BR>Thanks for sharing. Can you tell us more
about your research?<BR><BR>Brian Moss writes:<BR>>> I'm currently
writing my master's thesis on the OLPC program and why --<BR>>> despite
the most honorable of intentions -- it has largely failed to live up
to<BR>>> the hype.<BR><BR>Ditto - can you elaborate on your view of what
this means?<BR><BR>Cheers,
Sam.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Olpc-open mailing
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href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</A><BR>Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus
Database: 2109/4778 - Release Date: 01/31/12</P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>