interesting talk on open source & cheap computers in education

[Stjepan Rajko]

I thought y'all might find this interesting:

http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/derek_lomas_open_source_games

2009 PopTech Fellow Derek Lomas is director of the Playpower Foundation, a global network of developers, designers, academics, NGOs and businesses. Playpower leverages the availability of ultra-low-cost computers to create and distribute affordable, effective, and fun learning games for under-privileged children worldwide.

Best,

Stjepan

[Lisa Tolentino]

Wow, this is a fantastic project and has amazing implications for how
an ed-tech learning model could work for developing countries. I've
been trying to imagine what it would look like to work with
inexpensive technologies already available in the Philippines. This
effort seems much more promising for empowering small communities of
people than the One Laptop Per Child model.

This is also an amazing blast in the past--
Rob and I were in graduate school with Derek, who was in the Visual
Arts program at UCSD. We were all trying to get access to an EEG for a
performance and biorhythm project and were hoping Derek could get us
connected through the Cognitive Science department. (He was trying to
switch from Visual Arts to Cog Sci.)

What a small, small world.

So glad you posted this!

Lisa

--
Lisa Tolentino
Media Arts and Sciences, PhD Student
Arts, Media and Engineering Program
Arizona State University

[Jessica Mumford]

Thanks for this link, this looks really interesting!

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Stjepan Rajko <stj...@urbanstew.org> wrote: