i've added breona's slides to the post at http://change.washington.edu/2010/01/breona-gutschmidt-on-one-laptop-per-child/
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:53, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at gmail.com> wrote: > This Thursday at Change, UW grad student Breona Gutschmidt will > presenting on her work on One Laptop Per Child. > > In 2009, the One Laptop Per Child organization (www.laptop.org), > founded by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT?s Media Lab, ran a pilot program > called OLPCorps. The intention was to provide funds and 100 of the > group?s iconic green and white XO laptops to university student teams > partnering with established NGOs in order to deploy the computers in > rural African locations. > > University of Washington graduate student Breona Gutschmidt wrote one > of the 30 winning proposals, and, partnering with the East African > Center for Women and Children (EAC), headed up a team of graduate > students to launch the XO laptops at the Vutakaka Junior School in > Takaungu, Kenya, this past summer. She?ll give an overview of the > project, including highlights, challenges and assessment, and bring a > couple of XO laptops to show-and-tell. > > Breona Gutschmidt has spent the last several years working in the > technology and education field and is currently pursing an MEd in > Educational Communication and Technology at UW?s College of Education. > Among other projects, she has written and edited multimedia curriculum > for an educational software company called Apex Learning, and she > spent several months in Takaungu, Kenya in 2004 implementing a youth > and technology project for 12-18 year-olds. She has a B.A. in creative > writing and has worked as a writer and editor at companies including > Microsoft, the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington. > > Breona enjoys exploring questions of how new software and hardware > will be implemented and developing curriculum tools for new and > emerging technologies. She is particularly interested in the > intersections between education, technology and creative expression > and education, technology and health. > > What: Breona Gutschmidt on One Laptop Per Child > When: Thursday, January 27 at Noon > Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203 >
