1. What OLPC is good for & Not good for?

2. Explicit Educational purposes in mind?

3. These are the capabilities that enabled the exponential growth of knowledge in the world, and children, given opportunity, freedom, and guidance, are the most capable to take advantage of these capabilities for growth and development

4. WHAT OLPC IS GOOD FOR? Collaboration Design, Modeling, Visualization, Reflection, Debugging (To remove a hidden electronic device, such as a microphone, from: debug a conference room.)

5. HOW? 1/2 Access to connected laptops. School practice will be enhanced through electronic access to materials. Content can be updated constantly at lower cost. The ability for teachers to select appropriate materials for local needs.

6. HOW? 2/2 Day to day developments. The laptops enable support for ongoing teacher professional development. peer-to-peer support. Development of communities of learners and teachers, and local content creation and sharing.

7. How children learn? Meaningful Learning should include: 1. Cognitive development 2. Social and emotional development 3. Education and language development 4. Independence and responsibility {Play is an interaction between the self and the environment}

8. Piaget (1972) play: 1. play can serve many purposes and since children learn more effectively through activity rather than instruction, play provides an excellent vehicle for learning.

9. Piaget (1972) play: 2. cognitive development takes place as a result of the interaction between the child and the environment.

10. OLPC& Imagination Vygotsky. -Erikson Play is characterised by ‘imaginary qualities’ (Vygotsky. 1966): ). Play can be intense and serious; it can be creative and spontaneous. It seems that it is the attitude of the child which is important in establishing whether an activity is play

11. Erikson: learns to cope with the environment

12. What Is OLPC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7OqA VhGL8k&feature=channelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7OqA VhGL8k&feature=channel

13. OLPC - Brazil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN5tNx AunKQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN5tNx AunKQ

14. Dewey’s Work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYBo Wp5yRU&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYBo Wp5yRU&feature=related

15. Brunner – and Technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2H_sw MUlOghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2H_sw MUlOg

16. History of Instructional Technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdwEIi2 2Dv8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdwEIi2 2Dv8

17. OLPC & Subjectivism vs. Objectivism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F00R3p OXzuk&feature=PlayList&p=58567FCAC1 628ABD&index=1&playnext=2&playnext_f rom=PLhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F00R3p OXzuk&feature=PlayList&p=58567FCAC1 628ABD&index=1&playnext=2&playnext_f rom=PL

18. Sara Grimes-critics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOX_t cE6M8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOX_t cE6M8

19. Maslo’s hierarchy of needs & OLPC Self actualization(5) Esteem(4) Love and belonging(3) Safety(2) Physiological needs(1)

20. teacher or NO teacher? Nicholas Negroponte(a professor of MIT’s media lab-2005) who is the founder of OLPC’ in fact Dr. Seymour Papert(student of Piaget) had this idea for children to use computer – he,Negroponte once said that he hopes that the OLPC can work for children as a teacher! DO YOU AGREE?

21. Teacher or No Teacher Lego Mindstorms gets its name from a book by Seymour Papert called Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas.Lego MindstormsSeymour Papert Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas Papert, a student of developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, has much to criticize about the way mathematics are taught to children. Although he was writing in the late 70s, the situation is not much better today, even though we have much better tools available to us for teaching mathJean Piaget

22. Identity crisis& OLPC!