Digital Bridge Foundation
OLPC/Sugar WORKSHOP for Primary School Teachers and Teacher Trainers
14th,15th,16th and 17th April'10
9.30 am to 5.00pm
In collaboration with
The Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education: Gnowledge Lab
OLPC is designed around the idea of the free sharing of knowledge. Our goal is to empower children to share and build on what they learn in every way imaginable. There should be no barriers to children who wish to re-create and build on the materials they are given.
XO will bring a world of new ideas, images and materials within reach of children around the world. It will also bring children and teachers new ways to collaborate, create, and transform works over time. Our focus on collaboration as a fundamental element of learning drives a commitment to editable document formats, revision tracking, and careful attribution of authors and sources.
It has been over a year since the start of DBF's first olpc project in India at Khairat. The current projects are:
Khairat School Khairat
Holy Mother School Nasik
Saint Anthony School Dugawar
Parikrma Bangalore
Ashoka High School Mumbai
Aradhna School Bangalore
Udavi Gentillesse Matriculation School Auroville
This workshop will be led by Prof. Nagarjuna and will bring together persons from some of these projects who will share with us their experiences. We will have an opportunity to understand the difficulties that projects face and find a way to address these issues in newer deployments.
The workshop will cover the following topics:
General Sessions
How to operate the XO
Introduction to Sugar Philosophy and Activities
Planning an olpc deployment
Technical Track
How to set up a School Server
How to support and maintain XOs at the school level
Hands-on XO practical sessions
Teacher Track
Constructivism
Sugar Activities
How to create learning activities on the XO
Practical sessions.
Participants
1. Project Heads
2. Teachers and Technical Coordinators from current DBF olpc projects.
3. Proposed DBF olpc project deployments in the next 3 months.
Advance Reading
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/3/3b/Emergent_Design%2C_David_Cavallo.pdf
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/9a/Learning_Manual.pdf
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/
Venue:
Campus, Sreenidhi International School,
Aziznagar , R.R. District
A.P. 500 075
Contacts : Mob +91 9951532000
Email: kmrfoundation@gmail.com
www.kmrfoundation.org
Profile of Dr. Nagarjuna G.
Dr. Nagarjuna G. is a science educationist in Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Nagarjuna did M.Sc. in Biology and M.A. in Philosophy from Delhi University, and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from IIT Kanpur.
Currently carrying out research and development in the area of structure and dynamics of knowledge networks , an inter-disciplinary domain covering the issues in cognitive science, epistemology, and computer science. Some of his areas of interest are semantic web, knowledge organization,
AI, philosophy of science, biological roots of knowledge and modeling complex systems with specific interest in cognitive development.
Prof.Nagarjuna is the author of a specification and implementation of a distributed knowledge base called GNOWSYS
(http://www.gnu.org/software/gnowsys/), and an architect of gnowledge.org, a community portal, which is launched on 2nd February 2007. He contributed as a core developer and architect of SELF Platform. He is currently guiding three research scholars in the area of science education at HBCSE, TIFR. He teaches graduate courses in the area of History and Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Development. As an activist he focuses on promoting free knowledge and free software and serves as the chairperson of Free Software Foundation of India.
Current engagements: Continued development of gnowsys, gnowsys-mode (a major mode of emacs for knowledge networking), gnome-gnowser (a GNOME based client for knowledge networking), building an Atlas of knowledge, writing neighbourhood theory of meaning, and training teachers in free software for science and mathematics education.
His official home page is at
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/staff/academic/nagarjuna-g/
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