[OLPC-Asia] 申请6台机器用于大山里的魔法教室

[tkkang在nurturingasia.com]

Get the purpose right in what we hope to achieve in deployment small or large.
The key is "P" people. If teacher understand and allow the child to take the XO home then the child will have MORE time to explore by themselves. Adults facilitate interest and permission for exploration - e.g. if the child say I used the screw driver to open up the XO to see what is it inside and in the process break it HE/SHE should be "rewarded" for the learning intention, curosity and effort! Ask how will the teacher react to such an incident?


Two write-ups to document my own thinking/experience:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/71795093/Program-Thinking-for-OLPC-Evangelism-Training

http://www.scribd.com/doc/64216380/OLPdisAbledC-N-1


This paper by Seymour Papert who is the father/mother of OLPC thinking is really worth the reading:

www.papert.org/articles/acritiqueoftechnocentrism.html


>-----Original Message-----
>From: lite li [mailto:litekok at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:36 PM
>To: anthony.wong at laptop.org
>Cc: olpc-asia at lists.laptop.org, 'Team OLPC', 'K.T. Kang'
>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Asia]	申请6台机器用于大山里的魔法教室
>
>On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Anthony Wong <anthony.skwong at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lite,
>>
>> I can support to give 6 XOs for your small experiment. However, it must be
>> borne in mind that the XO is not a general computer and we are not
>> promoting computer education as such in OLPC. Our concept is to allow the
>> children to explore and learn by themselves and the XO is only a tool to
>> enable them to do so. Hence the job of the teacher is not to teach them
>> computer classes. They should just provide initial guidance on what could
>> be done using the XO and let the children explore and learn by themselves.
>> Therefore we strongly recommend the children to "own" the XO and take it
>> home. In fact all the "activities" (i.e. the software programs) in the XO
>> are designed with this objective in mind. So we do need a champion for the
>> project to pass on this mission and objective of OLPC. Perhaps Ben could
>> explore himself with an XO first and recommend how the XO could fit into
>> the "Magic classroom in Mountains" program. I just suspect how 5 XOs could
>> be sufficient for any purpose. If Ben or Lite recommends more XOs are
>> necessary after study, then perhaps we could consider a larger number of
>> XOs to kick start the project.
>>
>
>Hi, Anthony,
>
>Thanks for your support.
>
>I thought I got a mistake before, now I know that education and teaching is
>different.
>
>Let the children "own" the XO and take it home, explore and learn by
>themselves.
>让孩子们拥有XO并可以带回家，通过XO来自己学习或扩展眼界。
>
>And our responsibility is:
>
>Provide initial guidance on what could be done using the XO
>为孩子们提供关于XO可以用来做什么的初步指导。
>
>BR,
>Lite
>
>
>> I welcome views from others on the addressee list.
>>
>> Best,
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:40 PM, lite li <litekok at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi，Anthony Wong & T.K,
>>>
>>>   We want to apply for 6 XO laptops for the  small experiment by "Magic classroom
>>> in Mountains".
>>>
>>>   Ben is a longtime contributor on open source community, and is one of originators
>>> of open source group - "Suzhou FS group"(*苏州自由软件用户组).*
>>>   For 6 laptops, one is for Ben's pre-study, others will ship to "Magic classroom
>>> in Mountains".
>>>   After this study is OK, he will guide these members in "Magic classroom
>>> in Mountains".
>>>
>>>   It will do:
>>>   1. Make the chinese documentation, and teach the volunteers.
>>>   2. Guide & Plan the volunteers how to teach the student in the rural
>>> school.
>>>
>>>   Thanks,
>>> Lite
>>>
>>> ;----------------
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Ben, an open source enthusiast and longtime contributor contacts me to know
>>> if he and his group can bring a few OLPC on their way to Tibet. Not many,
>>> but some to demonstrate the philosophy of OLPC project. The machines will
>>> be donated to the Tibetan school afterward.
>>>
>>> I just forward his whole message here. His contact info is on CC list.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tommy
>>>
>>> ;----------------
>>> I contact an university organization named "大山里的魔法教室" (Magic classroom
>>> in Mountains), if you can provide some divice for them, I`d like to
>>> support them on howto use OLPC and how to convey ideas to those  magic
>>> classroom.
>>>
>>> ;----------------
>>>
>>>
>>> 因为武大的这个组织第一次可能先要了解和学习这个东西，我希望能先有个6台，我自己留一台同期研究和学习，5台先提供给魔法教室那边，待学习使用一周后，我周末去武汉，和他们交流，并根据社区提供的文档，成功案例，制定去山区学校演示的计划，并再申请正式在山区学校使用的机器数量。
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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