Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Mitchell Seaton]

Hi Harv,

I'm a OLPC Volunteer, and work mainly with
eKindlingin the Philippines and
also live here in Copenhagen, Denmark currently
since July last year!

Where are you based now, Harv?

Christoph' is right, I'm waiting for a single RPi unit on back-order here,
see what comes of it when I get my hands on one for testing. Yes, I also do
see RPi, Arduino, and Lego WeDo/Mindstorms as nice advanced add-ons and
would like to see some of these units reach our deployment schools in the
near future.

I think the main bulk of Sugar UI work is focusing around:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GTK porting,
which got kicked off last year.

It will be interesting with the XO 3 given the choice of distro - what
Andriod GUI/launcher environment is going to be supported by OLPC,
developed? And what is going to make sense in the context of primary-age
school children.

Regards,
Mitch

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Harv Stanic  wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 22:45:26 +0100
> Christoph Derndorfer  wrote this:
>
> > Hi Harv,
> >
> > great to hear from you.
> >
> > Are you still based in Denmark? Because there's at least one student at
> > Aarhus University who's currently working on a PhD thesis which is
> > related to OLPC, plus in the past two other students did similar
> > research work there as well.
>
> Hi Christoph and others,
>
> I have left LEGO Education and Denmark last year which was a quite
> difficult decision, as it was a great place to work, but as you know big
> companies are run by marketing and not by research results.
>
> > Additionally Mitch (in CC) who supports an OLPC project in the
> > Philippines is currently working for the university in Copenhagen.
> > Seeing that he's currently looking into the Raspberry Pi module and how
> > it could potentially be used for education in the OLPC context I think
> > that your interest in GUI programming of robots could make for some good
> > discussions. :-)
>
> Oh yes. I think that Raspberry Pi is great and inexpensive solution as an
> "add on" for advanced classes - as in CS, as well as in robotics - however
> it depends on external peripherals so it is not "all-in-one" solution.
> What makes OLPC amazing is its screen and in its second incarnation
> its touch-screen. Ui should be discussed, but it was always a work in
> progress.
>
> One thing that I find great those days is "Ubuntu for Android" and an idea
> that OLPC and RaspPI would benefit greatly being a blend of both.
>
> But there, I think it would be useful to open a discussion and see which
> OS blend would suit the best for future incarnations of OLPC concepts.
>
> my best
>
> Harv
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Harv Stanic]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 22:45:26 +0100
Christoph Derndorfer  wrote this:

> Hi Harv,
> 
> great to hear from you.
> 
> Are you still based in Denmark? Because there's at least one student at
> Aarhus University who's currently working on a PhD thesis which is
> related to OLPC, plus in the past two other students did similar
> research work there as well.

Hi Christoph and others,

I have left LEGO Education and Denmark last year which was a quite
difficult decision, as it was a great place to work, but as you know big
companies are run by marketing and not by research results.

> Additionally Mitch (in CC) who supports an OLPC project in the
> Philippines is currently working for the university in Copenhagen.
> Seeing that he's currently looking into the Raspberry Pi module and how
> it could potentially be used for education in the OLPC context I think
> that your interest in GUI programming of robots could make for some good
> discussions. :-)

Oh yes. I think that Raspberry Pi is great and inexpensive solution as an
"add on" for advanced classes - as in CS, as well as in robotics - however
it depends on external peripherals so it is not "all-in-one" solution. 
What makes OLPC amazing is its screen and in its second incarnation 
its touch-screen. Ui should be discussed, but it was always a work in
progress.
 
One thing that I find great those days is "Ubuntu for Android" and an idea
that OLPC and RaspPI would benefit greatly being a blend of both. 

But there, I think it would be useful to open a discussion and see which 
OS blend would suit the best for future incarnations of OLPC concepts.

my best

Harv
 


  
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Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Tabitha,

thanks a lot for sharing this link.

After a quick glance this looks like a very interesting paper, hopefully
I'll find some time over the weekend to read it in-depth.

Cheers,
Christoph

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Tabitha Roder wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Not so new, and not about a deployment exactly, but it maybe an
> interesting and different article for people to read.
>
> Presented at Ascilite 2010, you can find the conference proceedings here
> -  http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/proceedings.htm - and
> my paper here -
> http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/procs/Roder-concise.pdf
>
> Here is the abstract so you can decide if you want to read it:
>
> Within the theme of “Curriculum, technology and transformation for an
> unknown future” it seems appropriate to present an image of seeing and
> doing things differently that comes from outside of formal education. The
> context for this story comes from working as part of the NGO one laptop per
> child (olpc) community in New Zealand. The impact of the global olpc
> movement has been widely accepted as transformative in its mission to
> enable children’s agency in learning and participation in knowledge
> building communities. It is a vision that frames future learning within
> highly fluid and unstable spaces. In this paper the focus will be on a
> local community network that supports this project. Members of the NZ olpc
> volunteer community largely learn through informal means. Their learning
> spaces are both physical and virtual. They are spread across New Zealand
> and are connected to diverse global networks, where they can access
> “mentors” and co-learners using Web 2.0 internet based technologies.
>
> Using narrative inquiry (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000) we invite readers
> to draw parallels between the community of practice described, with its
> rich experiential and informal learning features, to pedagogical
> possibilities for formal tertiary settings. Roles for teachers and learners
> are examined with particular emphasis paid to the learner as maker and
> designer in both the lived physical reality and in the constructivist sense
> of meaning-making. This raises questions about the nature of knowledge and
> its relationship to pedagogy.* *In addition the recount draws attention
> to sociocultural and co-constructed dimensions, where learning is
> distributed across the community and knowledge is seen as stretched across
> the activities and members of the community (Scardemalia, 2004).
>
> I am on this mailing list so as I can keep up with who is doing research
> on what related to OLPC and hope that one day I can do a bit of research
> that contributes further to the research already done or being done. I am
> relatively new to research and my day job is Academic Development in a
> tertiary institution in New Zealand. I am particularly involved in Moodle
> as I am an elearning specialist. My involvement with OLPC (for those who
> choose not to read the paper) is as a volunteer tester since mid 2008.
>
> Kind regards
> Tabitha Roder
> eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer
> Cell +64 21 482229
> tabi...@tabitha.net.nz
> http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/
> Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010
>
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Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hi Harv,

great to hear from you.

Are you still based in Denmark? Because there's at least one student at
Aarhus University who's currently working on a PhD thesis which is related
to OLPC, plus in the past two other students did similar research work
there as well.

Additionally Mitch (in CC) who supports an OLPC project in the Philippines
is currently working for the university in Copenhagen. Seeing that he's
currently looking into the Raspberry Pi module and how it could potentially
be used for education in the OLPC context I think that your interest in GUI
programming of robots could make for some good discussions. :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Harv Stanic  wrote:

>
> Hi Claudia and Christoph,
>
> I lurk here from time to time, but there is hardly anything.
>
> I used to work for LEGO Education in Denmark as a SW Producer for WeDo and
> MINDSTORMS robots and before that I used to collaborate with Don Hopkins
> on some UI OLPC stuff and also used to teach Interactive Media at Bauhaus
> in Weimar Germany and at  Design School Kolding in Denmark.where  I was
> interested in the development of touch interfaces.
>
> Right now I am developing UI and GUI programming for robots for children
> age 14+ mainly for Android devices.
>
> it would be nice to know what new things are going on in OLPC world.
>
> I hope to have some more info here.
>
> my best
>
> Harv
>
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editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net]

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Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Tabitha Roder]

Hi everyone

Not so new, and not about a deployment exactly, but it maybe an interesting
and different article for people to read.

Presented at Ascilite 2010, you can find the conference proceedings here -
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/proceedings.htm - and my
paper here -
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/procs/Roder-concise.pdf

Here is the abstract so you can decide if you want to read it:

Within the theme of “Curriculum, technology and transformation for an
unknown future” it seems appropriate to present an image of seeing and
doing things differently that comes from outside of formal education. The
context for this story comes from working as part of the NGO one laptop per
child (olpc) community in New Zealand. The impact of the global olpc
movement has been widely accepted as transformative in its mission to
enable children’s agency in learning and participation in knowledge
building communities. It is a vision that frames future learning within
highly fluid and unstable spaces. In this paper the focus will be on a
local community network that supports this project. Members of the NZ olpc
volunteer community largely learn through informal means. Their learning
spaces are both physical and virtual. They are spread across New Zealand
and are connected to diverse global networks, where they can access
“mentors” and co-learners using Web 2.0 internet based technologies.

Using narrative inquiry (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000) we invite readers to
draw parallels between the community of practice described, with its rich
experiential and informal learning features, to pedagogical possibilities
for formal tertiary settings. Roles for teachers and learners are examined
with particular emphasis paid to the learner as maker and designer in both
the lived physical reality and in the constructivist sense of
meaning-making. This raises questions about the nature of knowledge and its
relationship to pedagogy.* *In addition the recount draws attention to
sociocultural and co-constructed dimensions, where learning is distributed
across the community and knowledge is seen as stretched across the
activities and members of the community (Scardemalia, 2004).

I am on this mailing list so as I can keep up with who is doing research on
what related to OLPC and hope that one day I can do a bit of research that
contributes further to the research already done or being done. I am
relatively new to research and my day job is Academic Development in a
tertiary institution in New Zealand. I am particularly involved in Moodle
as I am an elearning specialist. My involvement with OLPC (for those who
choose not to read the paper) is as a volunteer tester since mid 2008.

Kind regards
Tabitha Roder
eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer
Cell +64 21 482229
tabi...@tabitha.net.nz
http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/
Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010
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Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Harv Stanic]

Hi Claudia and Christoph,

I lurk here from time to time, but there is hardly anything.

I used to work for LEGO Education in Denmark as a SW Producer for WeDo and
MINDSTORMS robots and before that I used to collaborate with Don Hopkins
on some UI OLPC stuff and also used to teach Interactive Media at Bauhaus
in Weimar Germany and at  Design School Kolding in Denmark.where  I was
interested in the development of touch interfaces.

Right now I am developing UI and GUI programming for robots for children
age 14+ mainly for Android devices.

it would be nice to know what new things are going on in OLPC world.

I hope to have some more info here.

my best

Harv
  
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Re: [Research] Anybody out there?

[Claudia Urrea]

Hi Christoph,

I am part of the list, but like you, I have not seen much activity.

I am the director of learning at OLPC, for those of you who don't
know me. I am supporting countries through local learning teams,
building capacity and supporting their different learning activities.

One of the things we are doing is promoting research and publication
in countries, so I am interested in any research initiative within the
olpc world.

It would be great to use this list to share information and have an
informed discussion about research initiatives happening in different
countries with different academic institutions.

Best,

Claudia

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <
christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> looking through the archives it's been a while since anyone has posted on
> this list...
>
> Given that there are some renewed efforts and discussions concerning
> research related to OLPC I was curious as to who is actually subscribed to
> this list and what everyone here is working on?
>
> As for myself: I'm the editor of the independent OLPC News and a volunteer
> at OLPC (Austria). I've become increasingly interested in the research
> around OLPC in particular and other 1-to-1 or ICT4E topics in general over
> the past 2~3 years. I recently also contributed my first review of a paper
> submitted to a journal and I used that opportunity to read up on some of
> the more recent publications written on OLPC.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you, I'd really love to see this list
> become a watercooler-like communication hub for all kinds of discussion
> related to research efforts. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> --
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>
> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
> contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net]
>
> e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu
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