+support-gang (where the Unleash Kids community support volunteer collaborative originated, for many similar reasons as outlined below -- community support was never taken terribly seriously within uppercase OLPC -- to make an obscenely long, painful and sometimes unprintable story very succinct ;-)
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Apr 24, 2016 1:18 AM, <fors...@ozonline.com.au> wrote: > >> Does anyone disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >>> school/classroom setting"? >>> >> >> Hi >> >> The two largest OLPC deployments, Peru and Uruguay account for 50% of XO >> laptops. >> >> Peru, 60% of use was in school [1] >> Uruguay home use > school use [2] >> >> Uruguay was 100% take home, Peru had a mixed take home policy. >> >> It is not clear what happened in the remaining 50% of deployments. >> >> These statistics are 4-6 years old. It is not clear how the usage changes >> as XO's have got older. They are presumably perceived to be less valuable. >> This could relax take home policies, it probably tends to lower school and >> home use. >> >> So I disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >> school/classroom setting". I think its too close to call. Home and school >> use are roughly equal. >> > > Huge thanks Tony Forster highlighting those 2 critical data points, > surrounding initial Peru/Uruguay uses in the years after XO acquisition. > > There are more than a few flies in the "One Laptop Per Child" ointment > both those well-known, and more we're learning from every day. I know of > more than a few schools (which do not want to be named, in the name of > self-preservation) where, to oversimplify the numbers: 100 XO laptops > arrived, of which 90 were used for 100 hours each, and the remaining 10 > laptops were used for 1000 hours each -- roughly speaking a common outline > is: > > - 9,000 hours of XO/Sugar use, by 100s of students broadly, back in > the day > - 10,000 hours of XO/Sugar use, by a few elite IT/Sugar/community > gurus, ongoing today, the best of which are giving back to their > communities in powerful ways > > These are arbitrary numbers to illustrate the larger common pattern, and > not to embarrass specific schools which do not want to be named. The lack > of structured project ideas / professional development of teachers / > culturally relevant content/pedagogy needs to be addressed at some other > time, among other fundamental reasons that many XO/Sugar dreams gathered > dust. > > But back to the original question, if (as Tony Forster and I suspect) > most-if-not-much-all Sugar use is happening outside of class time in 2016 > -- starting many years back now: how can we now get a better grip on these > very real, evolving, important extracurricular -> personal patterns? > Moving beyond glory days anecdotalism? Where do we have a moral > responsibility to move beyond our Negroponte founders' days "don't measure > it, just do it" idealism? Where have we unintentionally expanded > male/female rich/poor digital divides, as several OLPC communities > privately ask me to keep quiet about? When Silicon Valley companies now > publish gender/race stats routinely, to expose accidental/unconscious > injustices, how do we too learn to look in our own mirror? > > Half a decade later, we can collect as many anecdotes as we want, let's > jeep at it keeping our blogs fired up before the clock runs out. But > before the clock runs out, we require professional sociologists too, if we > are halfway serious about our Environmental Impact at all, and moving > beyond statistics that can easily made to lie for any fundraiser. Many > people ask me very pointedly -- are we across the OLPC/Sugar legacy a > listening organization, or is there a core tone-deaf MIT dream unwilling to > self-assess, needing a firm kick in the rear-end like even George Bush gave > to Donald Rumsfeld, to finally force an existential assessment of our > purpose? The bare minimum groundtruthing being serious amateurs like > Christoph Derndorfer, Tony Anderson and Morgan Ames etc who chose to put > their life in the village, stepping outside of the Jeep, to spend Many > Weeks Each in a broad diversity of communities -- Rwanda, Uruguay, Peru for > sure -- and many others too thankfully. > > Who today will follow in their footsteps spending weeks and months in > community, in listening mode, challenging their own assumptions, bridging > the various self-serving post/neo-colonial narratives? How do we help our > new generation find heartfelt diaspora families, willing to struggle for > progressive truths/opportunities beyond the happy-happy-joy-joy > founding/fundraising narratives? How do we help the embedded visitor speak > the local/indigenous language enough to get inside heads and then beyond > the founding days' multi-stakeholder mythologies, as new generations of > kids/siblings have come AND gone? What humility does the embedded visitor > need to bring to scratch below the surface building confidences among > several Confederates in the grassroots community, exposing Actual > (post)Implementation Challenges -- even if Not All Are Printable? What > Wayan Vota's (detached from the founders) will fund the Christoph > Derndorfers of our time over the coming decade, getting to the core > spiritual truths of what we have and have not accomplished? How do we > cultivate dry-by voluntourist visitors ethics to develop loyalty with the > community's generation-long asiprations they are now increasingly a part > of, while developing journalistic integrity at the same time? What > spare/repair/support companies must develop do bring rebirth to this OLPC > ecosystem like Activity Central and iLoveMyXO and XOexplosion.com and the > broad map of community repair centers we once had? ( > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations) > Etc! We will face or ignore these exitential questions at our own peril > :-) Compare: http://laptopstudy.net > > > >> Tony >> >> >> >> [1]Frequency: sessions in last week By place % at school >> Table 9 Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop >> per Child Program , IADB Feb 2012 >> >> [2]"Children reportedly use the XO's about an 1 to 1.5 hours per day at >> home...The XO's are not used as much in schools" >> >> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/plan_ceibal_a_better_designed.htm >> May 2010 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> -- >> <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep> >> <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep> >> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ >> <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep>http://unleashkids.org ! >> >
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