[Olpc-za] Questionnaire

[David Carman]

On 5/21/07, Antoine van Gelder <children at laptop.org.za> wrote:
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>
> 1. What is your name ?

David Carman

> 2. What city do you live in ?

Cape Town

> 3. What role do you play in your day job ?
>
>    a) Educator
>    b) Administrator
>    c) Marketer
>    d) Software developer
>    e) Content developer
>    f) Hardware developer
>    g) Politician
>    h) Investor
>    i) Graphic/Web design
>    j) Artist
>    k) Psychologist
>    l) Anthropologist
>    m) Lawyer
>    n) Accountant
>    o) Nurse or Doctor
>    p) Policeman
>    q) Network administration
>    r) Telecommunications engineer
>    s) Researcher
>    t) Project manager
>    u) Builder
>    v) Student
>    w) Activist
>    x) Scientist
>    y) Lumberjack
>    z) Other (Please specify)

d,q,t,x

> 4. Do you have experience teaching computer science to school children ?

only to children over the age of 18

> 5. Do you have experience teaching other subjects to school children
> with the aid of computers ?

no

> 6. Do you have experiencing teaching school children with or without the
> aid of computers ?

no

> 7. Do you have experience working in rural or inner-city schools ?

no

> 8. Do you have experience working in rural or inner-city communities ?

yes

> 9a. Do you have experience working in private or other schools in high
> income areas ?

no

> 9b. If yes, what do you see are the biggest benefits the kids receive
> from having more money spent on their education ?

n/a

> 10. If we were to divide the job of bringing OLPC to South Africa into
> seven broad categories, which one would you see yourself being most
> active in ?
>
>    a) Being part of a grassroots community helping schools and educators
> to get the most from their laptops.
>
>    b) Developing software and/or content for the laptop.
>
>    c) Critic.
>
>    d) Using the laptop in the classroom.
>
>    e) Moral support.
>
>    f) Helping to drive the buy-in process to gain the support of
> Government, Education Departments, Provincial Administrations,
> Universities, Aid Agencies, Philanthropic Investors, Funding Agencies etc.
>
>    g) Documenting the progress and results of the project.

a,e

> 11. Do you think the first OLPC pilot program should be run in a rural
> school or an inner-city school ?

rural - traditionally underresourced and more representative of the
average southern african school.

> 12. What are your top three reasons for why OLPC won't work (or won't
> work as well as it could) in South Africa ?

government inertia and "in"sourcing

> 13. What are the top three benefits you see if South Africa were to
> invest in OLPC ?

less pupils per computer
international education
less proprietary software

> 14. What other questions should I have asked in this questionaire ? :-D

nafc