Hi Holden,<br>As I understand, you are in Meerut, U.P. ... Our school is not very far from there, approximately 3 hours. It is very different from what you can see in Meerut. In Meerut you have facilities, it is a city, you can also find educated people... we are in a very remote village area. I invite you to feel the difference !!!<br>
We have 9 XO at present. Actually, I just came back to Belgium, I was there for a month.<br>I had the chance to go for a few days to Mumbay, meet Amit and visit the Khairat school.<span>
OLPC India is just in the starting blocks and there are a lot of challenges to face. Particularly for teachers training and concientisation and also schoolbooks and pedagogic documents.<br>The G</span><span>rammar School is an english medium school ? What curriculum are they following ? Is it the State curriculum or CBSE ?</span><br>
<span>-marc-<br><a href="http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org">http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org</a><br></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Holden Bonwit <<a href="mailto:hbonwit04@yahoo.com">hbonwit04@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hello, all!<br>
<br><span>I have been reading about the pilot program in Khairat, India (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/olpc_india_khairat_school_pilot.html" target="_blank">http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/olpc_india_khairat_school_pilot.html</a>)
and wanted to thank you for sharing what is going on. I'm also at a
grammar school in India, and we have a limited number of XOs (from G1G1
program) for students here to use as learning tools.</span><br><br>Does anyone mind stepping forward as a contact point for that
project, so that we might compare notes (age of students using the XOs,
curriculum, technical issues, etc.)?<br><br>Thank you,<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Holden<br></font><br>ps. I just stumbled upon this great website with XO accessories, in case you hadn't seen it! Fantastic!<br><span> <a href="http://studiofibonacci.com/" target="_blank">http://studiofibonacci.com/</a> XO Explosion</span><br>
<not a plug by any means, I really am excited... if not saddened that someone beat me to the market!><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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