Wednesday, September 14, 2011

OLPC evaluation

I found a discussion about OLPC at Educational Technology Debate, in which people discuss ICT4E (Information Communication Technology for Education). http://edutechdebate.org/one-laptop-per-child-impact/olpc-how-not-to-run-a-laptop-program/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EducationalTechnologyDebate+%28Educational+Technology+Debate%29&utm_content=Google+International#IDComment66569425 It is quite obvious that successful ICT4E needs not only devices to learn but also things like curriculum development, technical infrastructure, peripherals, support, etc. Also they need to involve all the stakeholders such as teachers, parents and community leaders. With the result of pilot program (trial), they can expand to wider area. But the purpose of the OLPC was basically, distributing PCs to kids. So it should be quite obvious that they needed other things at the same time from the beginning. Like Clayton R. Write says in the board, "It was not expected that the OLPC project would provide everything. Other groups, including national governments, were suppose to play their role - some did, others did not." So I think the real problem here was "no coordinators" or "no governance". There should be a role to manage all the things and run PDCA cycle from holistic point of view. For each of social innovation, we tend to focus on some specific factors to evaluate things. However, we also need to know how the system is working as a whole.

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