{"id":192,"date":"2008-07-17T01:46:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-07-17T01:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T01:46:48","slug":"olpc-learning-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/07\/olpc-learning-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC&#8217;s Learning Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The learning lab is one of the aspects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\">One Laptop per Child<\/a> which you don&#8217;t hear much about. It took me a couple of weeks at the office before I stumbled across their lab space in the corner of our office.<\/p>\n<p>The learning lab is staffed by some key people, including <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/vision\/people\/DavidCavallo\/\">David Cavallo<\/a> from the MIT Media Lab and <a href=\"http:\/\/logothings.wikispaces.com\/\">Cynthia Solomon<\/a>, one of the original founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logo_(programming_language)\">Logo<\/a>. These people have years of experience working alongside top scientists such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marvin_minsky\">Marvin Minsky<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seymour_Papert\">Seymour Papert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, David Cavallo gave an enjoyable presentation about the education model behind the efforts of learning group. He shared some experiences from around the world and started a discussion on how to better integrate such ideals into the XO laptop and its software. The session has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x64qod_davids-cavallo-talk_school\">published on dailymotion<\/a> &#8211; if you&#8217;ve got an hour to kill, I&#8217;d definitely recommend watching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The learning lab is one of the aspects of One Laptop per Child which you don&#8217;t hear much about. It took me a couple of weeks at the office before I stumbled across their lab space in the corner of our office. The learning lab is staffed by some key people, including David Cavallo from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-olpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}