Excellent analytical commentary from Joshua Debner, reposting on the basis of his experience in the field deploying OLPC computers in Peru. He advocates four actions to, as he says, "stop the bleeding":
- Internet: Connect your current schools. Stop your current deployment plans and fix the ones that are already existing
- Update: Push through this new software update currently said to be done by end of January
- Teacher Network: build a network and tools for teachers to share lesson plans, or communicate with each other
- Leverage the Intern Program: leverage the model of the intern program set up by OLPC.
These points, even the fourth, would make excellent points of reference for educational computing initiatives worldwide, not just in Peru.
- Internet: Connect your current schools. Stop your current deployment plans and fix the ones that are already existing
- Update: Push through this new software update currently said to be done by end of January
- Teacher Network: build a network and tools for teachers to share lesson plans, or communicate with each other
- Leverage the Intern Program: leverage the model of the intern program set up by OLPC.
These points, even the fourth, would make excellent points of reference for educational computing initiatives worldwide, not just in Peru.
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