<div>Well I guess this may be because Mitra's shared access group learning model is in contrast to individualization of learning through a single laptop for a single child as per the olpc model. </div> <div> </div> <div>It would be interesting to see comparative studies of computer kiosk based minimally invasive learning visa vis olpc learning. </div> <div> </div> <div>Here is an interesting article from India</div> <div> <a href="http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/05/90/PDF/Inamdar-Parimala-2007.pdf">http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/05/90/PDF/Inamdar-Parimala-2007.pdf</a></div> <div>where experiments with minimally invasive learning have been documented and perhaps if we can set up olpc projects in similar locations there could be head to head comparison studies.</div> <div> </div> <div>rakesh<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charbax</b> <<a href="mailto:charbax@charbax.com">charbax@charbax.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi, just wanted to say that i was there in Geneva at the Lift conference at Sugata <span class="st" id="st" name="st">Mitra</span>'s talk. I was filming video interviews for <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://techvideoblog.com/category/lift/" target="_blank">http://techvideoblog.com/category/lift/</a> <div><br> </div> <div>I remember I approached Sugata <span class="st" id="st" name="st">Mitra</span> after his talk to ask him what he thought about the <span class="st" id="st" name="st">OLPC</span> project. I am not sure I understood what he had to say about <span class="st" id="st" name="st">OLPC</span> or perhaps I just don't remember it clearly. But I think he wasn't totally enthusiastic about <span class="st" id="st" name="st">OLPC</span> which I thought was weird.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>But I guess that he is researching some other angle on the problem.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Anyways, I hoe that with Obama that <span class="st" id="st" name="st">OLPC</span> can hurry up and fix all the worlds problems. Cause the Children are growing older without a much better education system that they deserve. And I am thinking the problem is not only in poor countries, although their problem obvisously is the biggest, I think that all Children in all countries are waiting for the school system to be made better. And that I think is using computers and the Internet in a clever way.</div> <div><br> <div class="gmail_quote"><span class="q">On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> </span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q">Just saw Sugata <span class="st" id="st" name="st">Mitra</span>'s talk at Lift (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://liftconference.com/" target="_blank">http://liftconference.com/</a>) on<br> the hole-in-the-wall experiment and the data they collected. Most<br>impressive was the concept of self-organized learning that happened in<br>these places. <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html</a><br> It goes against all the talk about teacher training, etc.<br><br>Sameer<br>--<br>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>San Francisco State University<br>San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br></span><span class="st" id="st" name="st">Olpc</span>-open mailing list<br> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank"><span class="st" id="st" name="st">Olpc</span>-open@lists.laptop.org</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/<span class="st" id="st" name="st">olpc</span>-open</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Charbax,<br>Nicolas Charbonnier<br> </div><br>_______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br>