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1. Conectate, Juega Y Aprende / Get Connected, Play & Learn - Ecuador
2. Ubuntu Pace Academy Learning Lab - Atlanta, Georgia / South Africa
3. Planting an OLPC seed in West Papua - Indonesia / United Kingdom
4. Ndoombo Orphanage and widow center - Tanzania / Tonawanda, New York
5. NOAH-Havergal Initiative - South Africa / Toronto, Canada
6. Science in Their Hands, Right Livelihood Practices - Kenya
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1. Conectate, Juega Y Aprende / Get Connected, Play & Learn - Ecuador
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75970
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 30 XOs over 36 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
The main objective of our project consists in introducing the benefits
of computerization, to children between the ages of 8 and 12 years, who
until now, had been deprived of this educational tool (the computer) due
to the lack of financial possibilities of the parents and teachers.
We can assure you that the results of our project will become tangible
in a short period of time, and from these results, not only the children
will become the beneficiaries, but also the community where they belong,
the same, as we expect, will evolve under the influence of the technical
advancement we pretend to introduce to a generation who, in the future,
will dictate the direction of the community.
By educating these children’s minds and providing them with a means of
world integration, we are trying to eradicate poverty, since these
children, when adults, will be willing to establish industries and
activities which will generate employment, therefore improving the way
of living of a region of this planet, that although eager in willingness
for progress, it had been left forgotten by its government always
struggling by financial burdens.
Ignorance and poverty as well as education and progress go hand on hand.
2. Ubuntu Pace Academy Learning Lab - Atlanta, GA / South Africa
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76000
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 100 XOs over 12+ months
Project Objectives:
The Ubuntu PAL Lab well serve as an educational
resource and high-impact charitable opportunity to transform the
lives of
deserving South African students who, despite great hardships are
prepared
to use education to create a positive vision of their futures. The
Ubuntu
PAL Lab is a response by Pace Academy students to the educational needs
they witnessed first hand in downtrodden Eastern Cape townships of Port
Elizabeth.
The Ubuntu PAL Lab will be used in the spirit of Ubuntu - A person is a
person through other people - to expand Ubuntu?s educational initiatives
to invest in the emerging youth leaders to give them the tools they need
to be successful in the workforce, politics and the opportunity to
work in
the field of their own choosing. In addition the latest educational
tools,
such as the laptops.
3. Planting an OLPC seed in West Papua - Indonesia / United Kingdom
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76313
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 35 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
This project will introduce OLPC to West Papua. After an intense 6-week
introduction it will be sustained by local inhabitants and support via
the Internet. In addition to planting and nurturing an OLPC seed in a
part of the world with no prior exposure to OLPC, our project will
explore the challenges of building a sustained pilot after only six
weeks of face-to-face interactions with an expert.
Another objective is to explore the ideas for projects described in
Marvin Minsky’s essay OLPC Memo 5: Education and Psychology. He
describes many possible projects that “provide our children with ideas
they could use to invent their own theories about themselves”. He
suggests that cybernetic thinking (i.e. understanding complex processes,
for example, feedback loops) can provide children with productive ways
of thinking about their own thinking and learning. Learning a good
programming language can lead to understanding computational concepts
that are otherwise difficult to learn.
4. Ndoombo Orphanage and widow center - Tanzania / Tonawanda, New York
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76960
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 21 months
Project Objectives:
To provide learning opportunities for children and training
opportunities teachers • To provide low cost access to information
for news, weather, school projects and to web conference with schools
that have olpc
Our local partners Participating institutions are: Jane Orphange
Ngarmtoni, Arusha School, Braubaern School, Children for Children
Future (orphanage for street children), Olepolos Children’s Centre,
Ngaramtoni orphanage (90% girls) and Ndoombo Orphan Centre Primary
School, Duluti, Arusha.
PROPOSAL Target group
Our target group is underserved children aged 4 – 15 years mostly
attending rural schools, in urban slums and orphanages. Family of the
students selected to participate in this project will also be
indirectly impacted by this project. The indirect impact has been
explained in detail in an earlier section.
5. NOAH-Havergal Initiative - South Africa / Toronto, Canada
http://noah-xo.blogspot.com
http://olpcMAP.net?id=791001&km-distance=600
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76986
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 18 months
Project Objectives:
Our objective is to begin our pilot project with the students at
Havergal
College. The students are to learn xo software to then introduce the
laptop
to an Ark(NOAH's name for communities) during their visit to South
Africa in
August. Long term objective is to have one laptop per child for each
of the
arks.
6. Science in Their Hands, Right Livelihood Practices - Kenya
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67167
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 9 Xos for 2-3 months
Project Objectives:
To overcome the teacher’s resistance to a technology, and a new way of
learning. To help them see the co-learning, exploratory process and
guidance role they can play in well structured XO science learning
projects.
To overcome their fear of using a computer, and begin to see it as a way
to alleviate some of their teaching challenges (big classes, varying
needs of students, engaging students in activities, hands–on
experiences).
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