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High-quality education as a basic human right and as a global

necessity

David CavalloVice-president: Learning

OLPC

cavallo@laptop.org http://laptop.org

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Seymour Papert

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Inclusion, Agency, & Identity

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1st laptop school neighborhood in Sao Paulo

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Improving normal school

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Transforming learning

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What we can now do with 1:1 connected laptops

Learning by doing; constructing; reflecting; conversing

Communities of learners Aggregated projects Support for children, teachers, parents and

communities Shift from Information Delivery to Active

Collaborative Construction of Knowledge

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Scale & pilots

121 million children, including 65 million girls, have no opportunity to attend primary school

In developing countries, only 1 child in 3 completes 5 years of schooling

For socially disadvantaged children (rural, urban poor, indigenous, special needs, Aids orphans,...) access to quality education is virtually impossible

=> With the higher need for real learning, the status quo is untenable

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Full development of every child's potential

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