Planning Commission Oct 22 2010

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Transforming ElementaryEducation

Learning Learning

Satish Jha, OLPC, [email protected]


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We are here becausewe are passionate

about education as

an agent of change

Quality education for poor and rural population iscentral to the economic and social development

What brings us together?


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Poor have aspirations beyond survival

They recognize that

only education can

help achieve

aspirations.

Can our current educational eco-system alone

deliver on these aspirations?

And they are willing to

invest in the future.


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Significant progress in reducing out of school children

But challenges of

Quality

and

Adequacyof current education format

remain.Can more of the same really make our children

compete for opportunities in 2020?


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A solution needs to not just address challenges of todaybut adjust to opportunities of tomorrow.

What kind of education do we need to take 1%

of our children into the service economy?


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A Million questions.. A quarter billion children in India have little access to education

They go to schools designed for another era

Little infrastructure that resembles what the rest of the world calls schools

A quarter of them have One room-One Teacher-Five Grades schools

After 10 years of education they barely graduate to be domestic help

A tenth make it to college: 9/10th

Cannot speak well enough after college

They are falling further behind the rest of the world.. Everyday

A Huge DIVIDE. A Huge OPPORTUNITY


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Six Decades Later: Results A majority have enrolled in schools and

Since 1950s, India has:

4 times more primary schools,

6 times more primary teachers,

17 times more in upper primary

And 500 million illiterates against 360 million citizens we inherited in 50s

Youth literacy rate of nearly 73%

44% of Indian children aged 7 to 12 cannot read a basic paragraph

50% cannot do simple subtraction

By contrast, the youth literacy rate in both China and the USA is 99%


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Infrastructure: 75% of rural Indian schools lack electrical connections

Only 41% of schools have book banks

Only 7% of Indian primary schools and 10% of upper

primary schools have computers: Mostly urban By contrast, in the US:

90 percent of children have access to computers, and

77% of households have access to Internet


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What do the benchmarks tell? Despite rising rates of enrollment in schools at

all levels, Indias children still dont receive elementary levels

of education, and

Even further from competing with a technologically

oriented world

Currently India ranks 109th

on the WorldKnowledge Economy Index


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A worms eye view.. Challenges of

Cost of computers

Software costs

Curriculum

Basics of life

Resources

Electricity

Internet

School buildings

Climate

Teachers

Maintenance


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Our response

Technologies afford us an opportunity

Making learning fun

To overcome infrastructure challenges

Making learning affordable


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The solution needs to be

Future ready the cell-phone ofeducation

Transformational generational leaps

Doable practical, implementable andaccepted by the stakeholders

Financially viable entrepreneurialthinking to make it available affordably

Rs.10 a day

OLPC - An idea triggered in the villages of India

spreading across the globe


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Design a laptop for learning

That takes little power, any source of power

That can connect with or without internet That is village friendly or village proof

Rugged

Zero Maintenance

No software costs

Affordable

Makes learning fun


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A modern Shantiniketan XO Outside

Learning under a Tree

For the Child

Sun-friendlyRain-proof

Dust-proof

Shock-proof

A couple Watts of power

Solar powered

Tablet like

Open Source - Sugar

Free Microsoft Windows

And MS Office


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5 years of text books* deforestation

* chemicals to make paper

* distribution costs

Environmental

vs

1 laptop

* RoHS compliant ++* 2W power (human recharge)

* 5+ year life (including batteries)

* recyclable


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Mechanical Design No moving parts

No hard drive, no fans

Droppable Extra rigid shell

Bumper (replacable)

Shock mounted LCD

Moisture/dust/dirt resistant

Keyboard

USB, microphone etc - protected

Connector reinforcement

Transformer hinge


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802.11s

802.11s

Terrestrial

wireless links

(wifi, wimax)

Cellularpacket-data link

(2.5G, 3G)

Optional

distribution

network

Internet

802.11sEvery Laptop

Connects

With Each Other

Without a Server

or Wi-fi

Every Laptop

connects to

Internet

With a built-in Wi-Fi


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Progress so farONE Country Every Few Weeks Embraces OLPC

Uruguay 750 K

Peru 1000 K

Argentina 100 K

Mexico 250 K Rwanda 100 K

Turkey 100 K

2600 K built and

deployed to date

MilestonesNov 2006 Laptops first available (beta)

Nov 2007 Mass production ramp Year 1 1.2 Million units shipped

Year 2 1 Million units - >

Year 3 0.7 million so far with targeted 1.3 million


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A birds eye view

Laptops for the poorest???

Too large a challenge to handle??

Poor have little interest in education??

Give the poor children food first??

Let the children read and write first??

A luxury we cannot afford..??


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What is OLPC [one laptop per child]

A project designed to help

underprivileged children access

sustainable education that is in

sync with todays needs.

A rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and

software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.A tool for education that creates skill sets that can transform lives


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What is the Potential? We have 600,000+ villages

Roughly 500,000 have the population averaging 1000 They typically have less than 50 children in primary school

Aggregating at 10 villages offers

About 500 students

Up to Rs 150,000 pm gross revenue

Aggregating Village Level SEs

About 5000 coordinators or second order SEs

Revenue potential overseen Rs 1,500,000 And so on..


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Success Stories I: Uruguay

President of Uruguay met OLPC at Davos in 2008

Decided to take it across Uruguay in 24 months

Plan started in March 2008

Inaugurated in July 2008 and issued a Postal Stamp on OLPC

By Nov 2009, every single primary school student -390,000 children beganusing OLPC

Uruguay decided to move ahead to Upper Primary and High School with it

To make Uruguay the most competitive, capable and citizen orientedgovernment in Latin America

Achieved: 100% attendance; Teachers engagement; Transformationalimpact; greater confidence besides better skills, knowledge and creativity


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Success Stories II: Peru

The second most proactive deployment of OLPC

Improved attendance Greater excitement among children

More engaged teachers

Improved capabilities

Parents begin to learn as well

The program has gone through 6 rounds of successivelaptop purchases and deployment


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Success Stories III: Khairat, India

Children enjoy learning, they compete with each other

Attendance since OLPC: Out of 27 students, up to a third seldom came to theschool before OLPC deployment. Now the attendance is 100%

Parents want children to go to school

They learn by themselves better than ever before

Teacher is engaged with students

Students get less distracted

There is a great degree of interest

Improved grasping

Creativity: pride to show off their work

Parents are excited, children show off to their parents; older siblings learn


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Financial Model.

To reach the least developed countries and get laptops

into the hands of the poorest children, a new model

of partnership (and funding) is needed.To reach the least developed countries and get

laptops into the hands of the poorest children, a

new model of partnership (and funding) isneeded.


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Challenges ahead..

Changing the mindset

Persuading the leadership

Cajoling the Corporations

Informing the Socially Oriented

Requesting the Affluent

Empowering the motivated..


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Next Steps

Start a large scale program for A Few States

Start with the most underprivileged

Start with a Model School program

Start with any innovative model.


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The Book of the Future.


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Sharing in the Future


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Key Partners from Private & Public Sectors

Documents

Planning Commission Oct 22 2010