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One Laptop per Child - (Open) Data and Learning

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.

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  1. One Laptop per Child
    (Open) Data and Learning
    [Making it Matter, 2014-05-16]

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  2. Christoph Derndorfer
    [email protected]
    @random_musings

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  3. From Nepal…
    Source: Subir Pradhanang

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  4. …via Peru…
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  5. …to Zambia.
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  6. Source: wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Laptop-crank.jpg
    „$100 laptop“

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  7. Every child gets a laptop

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  8. „XO laptop“
    Source: www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157605729498226/

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  9. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157605729498226/

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  10. The Five Principles
    Child Ownership
    Low Ages
    Saturation
    Connectivity
    Free and Open Source

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  11. Sugar

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  12. >2.500.000 children & teachers
    are using XO laptops and Sugar today

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  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

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  14. OLPC ≠ OLPC
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  15. Goals
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  16. Organization
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  17. Size
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  18. Context matters
    Rural school #1 Rural school #2
    Source: Christoph Derndorfer

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  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

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  20. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179
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    Uruguay
    ~580.000 laptops

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  21. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179
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    Uruguay
    ~580.000 laptops
    One Laptop per Child
    (grade 1 - 9)

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  22. Does IT work?

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  23. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179
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    Does IT work?
    • Government: Is it worth the money?

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  24. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179
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    Does IT work?
    • Government: Is it worth the money?
    (Peru spent an estimated $200 million on its
    OLPC project with 850,000 laptops.)

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    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?

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  26. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/387992179
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    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.)

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  27. 6 criteria for successful
    ICT for Education implementations
    Infrastructure
    Maintenance
    Contents and materials
    Community inclusion
    Teacher training
    Monitoring and evaluation

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  28. 6 criteria for successful
    ICT for Education implementations
    Infrastructure
    Maintenance
    Contents and materials
    Community inclusion
    Teacher training
    Monitoring and evaluation

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  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?

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  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?

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  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

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  32. Source: http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=IDB-WP-304

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  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?

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  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?

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  35. education
    government
    technology

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  36. education
    government
    technology
    sweet spot for open data

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  37. learning
    resources
    bits & bytes
    sweet spot for open data

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  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

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  39. Lack of education isn‘t
    a technological or data problem…

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  40. …but information- and communication-
    technologies and (open) data can be
    tools to address such challenges.

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  41. Details, details, details  context

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  42. Incremental approach

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  43. Size does matter

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  44. Learning from mistakes
    by being open about them

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  45. Don‘t reinvent the flat tire.
    [Alan Kay]

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  46. Contact
    Further information
    Christoph Derndorfer
    [email protected]
    @random_musings
    www.laptop.org
    www.sugarlabs.org
    www.olpc.at

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