[Olpc-uk] educational approach for the pilot

[Faisal Khan]

Hi Daniel,

>Easier said than done, I know it's not easy to find these kinds of
*>resources, so I just write this in hope that it might make people
>start thinking about it (and keep eyes open).
*
In one of my earlier emails I mentioned that I had informally approached a
non-profit tech company about this. They have a team of volunteers,
recruited every year mainly in the summer, who they assign development
projects to.

The other channel would be final year university students who could work on
this as part of their final year projects.

These were some of my initial thoughts on finding dedicated and committed
resources for doing this.

I am sure there are other creative ways we could find resources. I'll keep
thinking.



Best wishes.

Faisal

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2009/7/26 Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>

> Hi,
>
> Just wanted to write down some thoughts based on some of the pilot
> discussion, regarding integration of the laptops into the school:
>
> It's been stated that the teachers want to handle this topic, in
> entirity. That's great, and no matter how this project is done,
> teachers should always be the driving factor on this topic.
>
> However, my personal suspicion is that they will not have sufficient
> time or technical skills to take full advantage of the laptops on
> their own. (not having interacted with the teachers, I may be wrong,
> in which case I would be both wrong and very happy)
>
> So, my point is basically that you should look out for technical
> minded people (i.e. developers) who you could pair up with the
> teachers in order to generate educational activities for the
> classrooms.
>
> Easier said than done, I know it's not easy to find these kinds of
> resources, so I just write this in hope that it might make people
> start thinking about it (and keep eyes open).
>
> I've now been in Nepal for a week and I've been very impressed with
> this angle of things on the deployment here (they employ graphic
> designers, education specialists and programmers in order to produce
> many curriculum-based activities, which are almost entirely designed
> conceptually by teachers). One item of good news is that they're
> looking at ways of making this localisable and sharing it with the
> world, but that is a young project which will not be ready in time for
> this deployment.
>
> Daniel
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