by | | Culture & Society, Education, Hardware, OLPC, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
From the “I should have posted this months ago” vault… When I led technology development at One Laptop per Child Australia, I maintained two golden rules: everything that we release must ‘just work’ from the perspective of the user (usually a child or...
by | | Culture & Society, Education, FLOSS, Interviews, OLPC, Open standards, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Talks, Work
Adam Holt and I were interviewed last night by the Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network about our not-for-profit work to improve educational opportunities for children in the developing world. We talked about One Laptop...
by | | Culture & Society, Education, FLOSS, OLPC, Publications
Engineers Without Borders asked me to write something for their Humanitarian Engineering magazine about One Laptop per Child. Here is what I wrote. The school bell rings, and the children filter into the classroom. Each is holding an XO – their own...
by | | Education, OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Edition 9 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter is now available. In this edition, we provide a few classroom ideas for mathematics, profile the Jigsaw activity, de-mystify the Home views in Sugar and hear about the OLPC journey of Girraween...
by | | Education, OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Editions 7 and 8 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter have come out in the past few weeks. In each edition, we will provide news, tips and tricks and stories from the field. To subscribe, send an e‑mail to...
by | | Activities, Education, OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Talks, Trips, Work
OLPC Australia had a strong presence at linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, two weeks ago. I gave a talk in the main keynote room about our educational programme, in which I explained our mission and how we intend to achieve it. Even if you saw my talk at OSDC...
