One Laptop per Child: Ein digitales Bildungswerkzeug
Gastvortrag vom 17. April 2013 über das One Laptop per Child Projekt im Zuge der "Gesellschaftliche Aspekte der Informatik" Vorlesung an der Technischen Universität Graz.
One Laptop per Child Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab Gründung: Anfang 2005 (Non-Profit) Erster Prototyp: Ende 2005 Produktion: November 2007 Source: www.laptop.org
“So much has changed in technology in the last 12 years, how can we know what will 2020 look like? In education, how do we prepare children for a world we cannot predict? What should education be when information is just a few clicks away? Here are some things we do know about the school leavers of 2020: • They will be competing for jobs on a global market • They will be working with as yet undeveloped computational devices, many in still to be imagined industries, in digitally connected communities; • They will need 21st century skills to succeed: information literacy; critical thinking; innovation & creativity; open‐ended problem solving; technological fluency...” [“One Laptop per Pacific Child” Concept Note]
Afghanistan Argentina Australia Austria Bhutan Brazil Cambodia Canada China Colombia Costa Rica Ethiopia Ghana Haiti India Iraq Lebanon Mali Mexico Mongolia Mozambique Nepal Nicaragua Nigeria Niue Pakistan Palestine Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Russia Rwanda Senegal Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Thailand United States Uruguay Vietnam OLPC ist momentan in >40 Ländern aktiv:
Case Study: Uruguay 3,5 Millionen Einwohner ~€800 monatliches Durchschnittseinkommen 98% Alphabetisierungsrate HDI: 0,765 (Rang 52 von 169) Source: www.cia.gov/library/publications/ the-world-factbook/maps/maptemplate_uy.html
Buch-Empfehlung „Learning to Change the World: The Social Impact of One Laptop per Child“ von Walter Bender, Charles Kane, Jody Cornish und Neal Donahue