One Laptop per Child - (Open) Data and Learning

Presentation at the "Making it Matter: Supporting education in the developing world through open and linked data" workshop in London on May 16, 2014.

Transcript

1. One Laptop per Child (Open) Data and Learning [Making it Matter, 2014-05-16]
2. Christoph Derndorfer christoph@olpcnews.com @random_musings
3. From Nepal… Source: Subir Pradhanang
4. …via Peru… Source: Christoph Derndorfer
5. …to Zambia. Source: Christoph Derndorfer
6. Source: wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Laptop-crank.jpg „$100 laptop“
7. Every child gets a laptop
8. „XO laptop“ Source: www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157605729498226/
9. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157605729498226/
10. The Five Principles Child Ownership Low Ages Saturation Connectivity Free and Open Source
11. Sugar
12. >2.500.000 children & teachers are using XO laptops and Sugar today
13. 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 Zambia OLPC is currently active in more than 40 countries
14. OLPC ≠ OLPC Source: Christoph Derndorfer
15. Goals Source: Christoph Derndorfer
16. Organization Source: Christoph Derndorfer
17. Size Source: Christoph Derndorfer
18. Context matters Rural school #1 Rural school #2 Source: Christoph Derndorfer
19. Case Study: Uruguay 3,5 million inhabitants ~€800 average income 98% literacy HDI: 0,765 (rank 52 of 169) Source: www.cia.gov/library/publications/ the-world-factbook/maps/maptemplate_uy.html
20. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068_b.jpg http://blog.laptop.org/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/mccain-xo-pres.jpg Uruguay ~580.000 laptops
21. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068_b.jpg http://blog.laptop.org/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/mccain-xo-pres.jpg Uruguay ~580.000 laptops One Laptop per Child (grade 1 - 9)
22. Does IT work?
23. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068_b.jpg http://blog.laptop.org/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/mccain-xo-pres.jpg Does IT work? • Government: Is it worth the money?
24. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068_b.jpg http://blog.laptop.org/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/mccain-xo-pres.jpg Does IT work? • Government: Is it worth the money? (Peru spent an estimated $200 million on its OLPC project with 850,000 laptops.)
25. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068_b.jpg http://blog.laptop.org/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/mccain-xo-pres.jpg Does IT work? • Government: Is it worth the money? (Peru spent an estimated $200 million on its OLPC project with 850,000 laptops.) • Education: Is worth the effort?
26. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179 5_3effdb9068_b.jpg http://blog.laptop.org/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/mccain-xo-pres.jpg Does IT work? • Government: Is it worth the money? (Peru spent an estimated $200 million on its OLPC project with 850,000 laptops.) • Education: Is worth the effort? (In Paraguay teachers went through 150 hours of teacher training.)
27. 6 criteria for successful ICT for Education implementations Infrastructure Maintenance Contents and materials Community inclusion Teacher training Monitoring and evaluation
28. 6 criteria for successful ICT for Education implementations Infrastructure Maintenance Contents and materials Community inclusion Teacher training Monitoring and evaluation
29. 6 criteria for successful ICT for Education implementations Infrastructure Maintenance Contents and materials Community inclusion Teacher training Monitoring and evaluation  Answers to: Does IT Work?
30. 6 criteria for successful ICT for Education implementations Infrastructure Maintenance Contents and materials Community inclusion Teacher training Monitoring and evaluation  Answers to: Does IT Work?
31. • Administrative information • Attendance • Cognitive skills • Device use • Digital literacy • Divergent thinking • Enrollment • Exams • Grades • Homework • Infrastructure • Internet use • Literacy • Numeracy • PISA results • Teacher training • Maintenance efforts • Power consumption • Time on task • Total cost of ownership (TOC) • Use of different programs/apps • … Some relevant data sets
32. Source: http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=IDB-WP-304
33. • Collecting data is very expensive and requires a lot of effort (e.g. remote rural schools in Peru). • Allowing different analyses on existing data. • Enabling verification of published evaluations. • Accountability of government spending. • …many other things we haven‘t even thought of yet. Why open data in education in the developing world?
34. • Laptops are great data collection tools. • Established efforts which are no longer pre- occupied with early stage issues. • Affinity to openness via FLOSS influence. • Increasingly under pressure to answer the „Does IT work?“ question. • Existing efforts in some countries (JM, NK NP, UY). • A diverse community of edu-tech-dev people. Why OLPC is a good platform/community for open data efforts?
35. education government technology
36. education government technology sweet spot for open data
37. learning resources bits & bytes sweet spot for open data
38. • For children, parents, teachers: information on laptop use (e.g. time spent) • For teachers: attendance app (e.g. who attended, esp. in rural schools) • For administrators: infrastructure app (e.g. reporting breakages, scheduling maintenance) Possible quick wins
39. Lack of education isn‘t a technological or data problem…
40. …but information- and communication- technologies and (open) data can be tools to address such challenges.
41. Details, details, details  context
42. Incremental approach
43. Size does matter
44. Learning from mistakes by being open about them
45. Don‘t reinvent the flat tire. [Alan Kay]
46. Contact Further information Christoph Derndorfer christoph@derndorfer.eu @random_musings www.laptop.org www.sugarlabs.org www.olpc.at