Peruvian Teachers Begin OLPC Training

eldavojohn writes "Today was the first day that Peruvian teachers from remote villages began training to use the OLPC in their day-to-day activities. From the article: 'Success of OLPC now depends largely on frontline teachers and, of course, parents and kids. Peru's effort, if successful, would be a model for other nations. In the training now under way, teachers must become versed not only in how to operate and maintain the laptops, but also in how to do their jobs within a newly laptop-centric educational model. The laptops will contain some 115 books, including textbooks, novels, and poetry, as well as art and music programs, cameras, and other goodies. What many of these kids won't get is Internet access: about 90 percent of the villages lack it, and may not get it anytime soon.'"

Comments

Wow, new term: "sneaker net"

[wurp]

I love how they pitch the term sneaker-net (to mean carrying thumb drives from somewhere that has internet access back to the school) as if Walter Bender invented the term:

by what OLPC president Walter Bender calls "sneaker-net."

Ooops, I meant this one:

[Joce640k]

Wrong video (g), I meant this one: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/228

The XO can be very educational....

[Itninja]

....even without Internet access. There are quite a few applications built in that communicate directly with other XO laptops (ad hoc). My 7 y/o has one and get quite a bit of use out of it - no Internet there either....

OLPC lookin' good

[Merdalors]

What a coincidence... I'm reading this on the XO I just received today. I'm piggybacking on a neighbour's WiFi. It's a well-built, quality machine. It has a built-in Python interpreter called Pippy, with numerous examples and help to train tomorrow's programmers. It has a command-line terminal, which also provides a Python interprreter. 20 hrs battery life on one charge, I think I'll bring it with me on business trips.

Re:OLPC lookin' good

[PaintyThePirate]

Open up a terminal, su -, olpc-update 656 It was a bug on build G1G1s shipped with.

Re:OLPC lookin' good

[PaintyThePirate]

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update It uses rsync, but you can do it other ways. With OLPC, everyone has had the same set of problems, so they are all very well documented on the wiki. Read up before complaining.