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AGENDA:
* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/
* Fast Review of the 2 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Competitive Learning within a Mesh Network - Munich, Germany
2. Big Sky Science Partnership for Montana Indian Reservation Schools -
Bozeman, Montana
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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1. Competitive Learning within a Mesh Network - Munich, Germany
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Competitive_Learning
http://dev.laptop.org/git
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58992
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Requests 2 XO-1.5's and 2 XO-1's over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
The project's aim is to develop an activity framework for competitive
learning/training activities over the mesh network.
Two or more teams within a learning environment compete against each
other.
They can see the learning/training effort of their own and of the other
teams, compare their own achievements, gain awards for achieving teacher
defined learning/training goals. They see in real time which team
members of
their own or other teams are actively learning at the moment and which
challenges their team and the other teams are actually facing.
By getting immediate feedback over the learning/training effort - as well
over their own, as over their team's and as over the effort of the
competing
team(s), pupils can be motivated to learn in a special way.
Into the activity framework for competitive learning/training a model
learning/training activity will be integrated. This highly customizable
question/answer activity can be used to train foreign or first language
vocabulary, maths, or any other knowledge that can be training in a
sophisticated question/answer style.
The learning/training activity uses experience from learning research to
gain a maximum of learning effect within the given time dedicated to
learning by the pupils. As well as the pupils, the teacher(s) can see the
training achievements of the class and can retrieve detailed reports
about
the successes and the learning gaps of the class - via the mesh network
he/she can even see from home in the evening which lessons are
understood by
the pupils and which have to be deepened the next day.
Plan of Action
1. Basic development of activity framework for competive
learning/training over a mesh network.
2. Internal tests and development within the team.
3. Integration of a simple model activity into the framework.
4. Beta release to the public and pledge for public testing/bug reports.
5. Development and integration of a demo interface design attractive to
the first target group.
6. Intensive testing within a class of 15 pupils.
7. Integration of a sophisticated model training/learning activity.
8. RC and Pledge for public suggestions for additional interface designs.
9. Further development
2. Big Sky Science Partnership for Montana Indian Reservation Schools -
Bozeman, Montana
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59123
http://www.smrc.montana.edu (coming soon?)
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Requests 10 XO's over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Ten XO laptops will be used in a pilot project in the classrooms of
elementary teachers on and near the Crow and Northern Cheyenne
Reservations in Montana. The Big Sky Science Partnership (BSSP) is a
National Science Foundation funded project, which has allowed us to
work with teachers on these two reservations since 2006.
Through our current funding BSSP is able to provide each teacher with
a Mac Book. This allows the teachers to share web-based resources
(simulations, videos, interactive media) with students. However,
students do not have hands-on access to computers and do not have the
freedom to browse and independently develop their understanding of
science. All BSSP teachers have less than 20 students per classroom;
therefore, 10 computers would allow students to work in pairs on
projects. Placing the XO laptops in the hands of students would
directly address three specific goals outlined in our BSSP project
description.
1) improve the delivery of science instruction,
2) improve the understanding of science content and pedagogy, and
3) generate school based K-8 learning communities.
BSSP faculty and administrative staff will attend a workshop to learn
XO Laptop operation system and Sugar software. In turn, they will
provide training for the teacher leaders, and work closely with the
teachers particularly during inquiry-based science lessons to bring
real-world data sets, models and simulations of science processes
directly into the classroom. With the variety of learning styles
that have been observed in these classrooms, the STEM (Science
Technology Engineering Math) lessons will be much more engaging for
the students with access to the XO laptops and Sugar software.
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