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OLPC in Paraguay educates both little kids and teenagers
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| Stop: How do the hackfest meetings work?
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| Bernie: The participants have different
| software programming skills and the
| teaching method is very informal. Right now
| I have about ten students from 12 to 50
| years old, and only two of them speak
| english. As you can imagine we have some
| problem to communicate with each other, but
| everybody's enthusiasm overcomes the limits
| of my uncertain spanish. The best students
| right now are Benedicto one of the
| Scratcheros, who's only 12 years old, and
| two older guys, Kenny Meyer and Gabriel.
| Kenny already knows well Python and Linux
| and also fixed a bug in one of our
| programs. Gabriel is very serious and
| motivated, wants to learn about everything
| and could help us with reporting bugs from
| the field.
|
| Stop: It looks like the OLPC in Paraguay
| isn't helping just the younger children.
| The project can also offer an excellent
| opportunity to older boys and girls to use
| ICT to do something useful for their peers
| (sometimes it also happens in Italy, as
| Stop! readers know from our JumPC and ITIS
| Linux stories). Congratulations to Bernie
| and we wish to him and all his teen hackers
| success!
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/147
Recent:
New Solomons study puts hard evidence of OLPC's positive impact
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| The OLPC program provides rugged, low-cost,
| connected laptops to children in developing
| countries. The program seeks to encourage
| learning by engaging students in a range of
| educational software undertaken both
| individually and with eachother via the XO
| laptop. The software, called âactivitiesâ in
| the OLPC system, come pre-installed on the
| laptop for immediate use, or they can be
| adapted to suit local needs, or supplemented
| by wholly local content.
| OLPC Oceania is one of three programs carried
| out under the Pacific Plan Digital Strategy
| with the support of the Secretariat of the
| Pacific Community. The Solomon Islands trial
| was also undertaken with the technical and
| resource support of the region-wide
| initiative, âOne Laptop per Pacific Childâ.
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http://robinzrants.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/freedom-and-informed-choice/
PaleXO is Deploying OLPC to Palestinian Schools
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| PaleXO is the Palestinian XO Laptop
| Community. We are working with the
| coordination and support of the Palestinian
| Educational Initiative (PEI) on
| implementing the XO laptop project In
| Palestine, and trying to create a success
| story out of it.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/palestine/palexo_is_deploying_olpc_to_pa.html
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