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all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:<br>
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Then type at bottom:
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AGENDA:
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* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/">http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/</a><br>
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* Fast Review of the 2 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please<br>
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:<br>
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1. Competitive Learning within a Mesh Network - Munich, Germany<br>
2. Big Sky Science Partnership for Montana Indian Reservation Schools
- Bozeman, Montana<br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!<br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a><br>
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href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a><br>
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a><br>
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1. Competitive Learning within a Mesh Network - Munich, Germany<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Competitive_Learning">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Competitive_Learning</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dev.laptop.org/git">http://dev.laptop.org/git</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://csgolpc2010.weebly.com"></a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58992">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58992</a><br>
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Requests 2 XO-1.5's and 2 XO-1's over undetermined months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
The project's aim is to develop an activity framework for competitive<br>
learning/training activities over the mesh network.<br>
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Two or more teams within a learning environment compete against each
other.<br>
They can see the learning/training effort of their own and of the
other<br>
teams, compare their own achievements, gain awards for achieving
teacher<br>
defined learning/training goals. They see in real time which team
members of<br>
their own or other teams are actively learning at the moment and
which<br>
challenges their team and the other teams are actually facing.<br>
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By getting immediate feedback over the learning/training effort - as
well<br>
over their own, as over their team's and as over the effort of the
competing<br>
team(s), pupils can be motivated to learn in a special way.<br>
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Into the activity framework for competitive learning/training a model<br>
learning/training activity will be integrated. This highly
customizable<br>
question/answer activity can be used to train foreign or first
language<br>
vocabulary, maths, or any other knowledge that can be training in a<br>
sophisticated question/answer style.<br>
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The learning/training activity uses experience from learning
research to<br>
gain a maximum of learning effect within the given time dedicated to<br>
learning by the pupils. As well as the pupils, the teacher(s) can
see the<br>
training achievements of the class and can retrieve detailed reports
about<br>
the successes and the learning gaps of the class - via the mesh
network<br>
he/she can even see from home in the evening which lessons are
understood by<br>
the pupils and which have to be deepened the next day.<br>
Plan of Action<br>
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1. Basic development of activity framework for competive<br>
learning/training over a mesh network.<br>
2. Internal tests and development within the team.<br>
3. Integration of a simple model activity into the framework.<br>
4. Beta release to the public and pledge for public testing/bug
reports.<br>
5. Development and integration of a demo interface design attractive
to<br>
the first target group.<br>
6. Intensive testing within a class of 15 pupils.<br>
7. Integration of a sophisticated model training/learning activity.<br>
8. RC and Pledge for public suggestions for additional interface
designs.<br>
9. Further development<br>
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2. Big Sky Science Partnership for Montana Indian Reservation Schools -
Bozeman, Montana<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59123">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59123</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.smrc.montana.edu">http://www.smrc.montana.edu</a> (coming soon?)<br>
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Requests 10 XO's over undetermined months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Ten XO laptops will be used in a pilot project in the classrooms of <br>
elementary teachers on and near the Crow and Northern Cheyenne <br>
Reservations in Montana. The Big Sky Science Partnership (BSSP) is a
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National Science Foundation funded project, which has allowed us to <br>
work with teachers on these two reservations since 2006.<br>
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Through our current funding BSSP is able to provide each teacher
with <br>
a Mac Book. This allows the teachers to share web-based resources <br>
(simulations, videos, interactive media) with students. However, <br>
students do not have hands-on access to computers and do not have
the <br>
freedom to browse and independently develop their understanding of <br>
science. All BSSP teachers have less than 20 students per classroom;
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therefore, 10 computers would allow students to work in pairs on <br>
projects. Placing the XO laptops in the hands of students would <br>
directly address three specific goals outlined in our BSSP project <br>
description.<br>
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1) improve the delivery of science instruction,<br>
2) improve the understanding of science content and pedagogy, and<br>
3) generate school based K-8 learning communities.<br>
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BSSP faculty and administrative staff will attend a workshop to
learn <br>
XO Laptop operation system and Sugar software. In turn, they will <br>
provide training for the teacher leaders, and work closely with the <br>
teachers particularly during inquiry-based science lessons to bring <br>
real-world data sets, models and simulations of science processes <br>
directly into the classroom. With the variety of learning styles <br>
that have been observed in these classrooms, the STEM (Science <br>
Technology Engineering Math) lessons will be much more engaging for <br>
the students with access to the XO laptops and Sugar software.<br>
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