Comments | chimerically: SXSW slides, CSCW paper, and more

chimerically

SXSW slides, CSCW paper, and more

Apr 07, 2011 18:21

Last month I gave a 12-minute talk at SXSW about One Laptop Per Child as part of a Future 15 panel. The crib of that talk (with picture-heavy slides) is now available on my website at http://research.morganya.org/ames-sxsw-futures15-olpc.pdf. I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. It's a pretty short read, and for those of you who have been ( Read more... )

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olego April 8 2011, 02:30:35 UTC

I like your slides--sounds like you gave a really controversial presentation. Would have been fun to watch! ^_^

lunacow April 8 2011, 07:18:59 UTC

Great slides. What kind of response did you get?

chimerically April 8 2011, 08:35:47 UTC

I actually saw a lot of nodding along in the audience, and everyone who talked to me afterward was open to the ideas. I'd bet that there were some who weren't, but none of them have talked to me about it, so it's hard to say how many or what their specific responses were.

lunacow April 8 2011, 20:54:19 UTC

Your evidence, even in the general terms presented in the slides, seems pretty compelling, so I'm not surprised you had a positive reaction to what you were saying. I'm sure there are people who will say "no, this program works the way it's supposed to!", but few of them have seen the laptops in action the way you have, so you're coming from a much more informed opinion (whether detractors will admit it or not).

fanlain April 10 2011, 05:05:32 UTC

out of curiosity, the 2% of kids that were doing interesting things - did you ask those children what their parents did for a living? or something softer like what got you interested in this? to understand the source of their initial interest or how they handled the learning process to do those interesting things (with or without support ( ... )

fanlain April 10 2011, 05:23:20 UTC

i don't know if ours was part of the ACOT project (more info here) or something else...or why we had computers in the classroom that day. they were clearly trying to see how we related to them.

chimerically April 10 2011, 07:07:44 UTC

Yep, I interviewed all of their parents, and they were all very supportive of education (they did a range of things themselves). I also used Turtle Art/Logo in elementary school, actually! It was a once-a-week sort of thing. Some of those programs were indeed antecedents to OLPC ( ... )