Research about One Laptop Per Child in Ethiopia

There is research about the One Laptop Per Child Program in Ethiopia. In February 2010, a report about this research was developed by Marton Kocsev, Nina Hansen, David Hollow and Magda Pischetola of the Groningen University in the Netherlands.

It is very important to acknowledge that research on One Laptop Per Child Program have developed primary effects. This means about the educational outcomes such as the grades of the students and other issues. But also there is an important research on the secondary effects of the One Laptop Per Child Program. These secondary effects are related to the psychological, social and cultural changes. These secondary effects were studied in Ethiopia.

The results about this important research in Ethiopia, are the following:

1. Regarding to primary effects, the results indicate that there is initially changes.

2. Regarding to secondary effects, there are changes in self concept, changes in cultural beliefs and in the social networks.

Therefore this important research about the One Laptop Per Child Program, is about the secondary effects. This means that there is not only primary effects in this kind of programs, there are also secondary effects. That is why is very important consider the secondary effects regarding the psychological, social and cultural changes. These changes are different depending the country where we are evaluating. For example, in Ethiopia in the primary education, a teacher works with 60 students and in Peru in the primary education a teacher works with 40 students. Also, in Peru 98% of students are attending primary schools while in Ethiopia 60% of students are attending primary schools.

If you need more information about the research of One Laptop Per Child Program in Ethiopia, you can get the information here

Use of Internet in Peru according to the Instituto de Opinion Publica PUCP

This study was developed in the capital of Peru, Lima, in September of 2009. This city has approximately 8 million people.

The study found that 34% of population access Internet from their homes. 28% of population use Internet every day, 15% use it every two or three days and 6%  two or three times a month.

About the activities that people do when surfing the Internet, the outcomes were the following:

• 93% people use the Internet for searching information,
• 79% use the Internet for e-mailing, 72% for  chatting,
• 63% for downloading music, videos and pictures,
• 35% use it for Wikipedia and
• 21% to participate in courses on line.

Fifty-seven percent of people in Lima access Internet from public booths, so out of 10 people, 6 people use the Internet  from public places, especially in the poor places of Lima. Other important information in this research is that 78% people have an account of e-mail, it means that out of 10 people in Lima, 8 people have an account of e-mail. 94% people have an acoount of e-mail in Hotmail, 21% in Yahoo and 18% in Gmail.

About the use of social media in Lima, 47% people have access to Hi5, 22% people have access to Youtube, 20% people have access to Facebook, 7% have a blog and 1% have access to Twitter.

This important study was developed by the Instituto de Opion Publica of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Research about One Laptop per Child Program in Peru – December 2009

Research results about One Laptop per Child in communities of Peru, developed in December 2009

The research was developed by Carlos Laura Quispe and Edgar Bolivar Diaz from the Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social of Peru. This study aimed to identy facilitators and barriers that arise from the introduction of One Laptop Per Children Program in Peru, specifically in rural Peru.  The program has three years of implementation. The research was developed in Arequipa and Puno. These regions are in the mountain in Peru.

The facilitators of the implementation of the Program are the followings:

1.  TEACHER BELIEFS.-

• The teachers that participed in this study said that the technologies such as computers and Internet have important effects on the education process and learning.
• Technology can improve the learning process specially when a teacher is working with students of different grades. For example when a teacher works with students of 1st. grade and 2nd. grade at the same time. Also, there is a change about the importance of the new technology in the classroom.

2. AVAILABILITY OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES.-

•  Teachers and students have access to a network of information and communication  anywhere and specially in remote areas of Peru.
• Students who use laptops are changing their learning process. For instance they are working in teams and developing news skills.
• Students consider that laptops have high value.
• Teachers consider that laptops and Internet are an important aspects in their development as educators.

Education is changing in the World

Education has news perspectives in the Network Society

 Education in the world is changing. Every day teachers are using news technologies and Internet to teach in different issues. In this video, you can see the aspects that are changing, what is the goal of education and how teachers are using tools to teach in an environment where young people have access to computers and Internet, also to other social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, etc. For instance, in Canada there are schools that use Internet to prepare classes for students. Parents also, can participate through Internet looking about the progress of students. The incorporation of new technologies is very important in the educational system, especially in low income countries where the educational level is not effective.

Statistics about new technologies in Peru (December, 2009)

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ACCESS TO INTERNET

The access to new technologies in Peru is different. According to National Institute of Statistics of Peru, in December 2009, 27,7% of the houses in Peru have a phone connection, 65,2% have access to cell phone, 22,7% have access to cable, 19,2% have a computer and 9,7% have access to the Internet. It is very important to know that the acces to Internet in the houses is very limited but the access to Internet in Internet booths is high.

According to the Institute of Statistics and Informatic of Peru, 31,4% of the people over 6 years of age use Internet. However, there is inequality by gender. For instance 35,1% of males use Internet and 27,7% of females use Internet, so there is a gender gap in the access to Internet. That is why, the government should promote different activities to close this gap about the access to Internet by gender.

According to the same organization in Peru, in relation to age, the  group of people between 19 and 24 years of age use the most the Internet (55,4%) and 51,4% of people between 12 and 18 years old are the second group that use more frequently the Inernet.

Other important information is about the place where people use Internet. 67,2% of people use Internet in booths. This is an important information, where you can see that out of 10 Peruvians that access to Internet, 7 Peruvians access it in public booths. In educational organizations only 8,3% of people have access to Internet.

You can get more information about this issue in this link where the information is in Spanish. Here.

8% of Peruvians is in Facebook

Peru is a country in South America that has 30 million people approximately. According to Pablo Bermudez, a specialist of the Organizations of American States, 8% of people in Peru is in Facebook, so there are 2 millions and 3 hundred of people that now are using Facebook. Every day 17 thousand people open an account in Facebook.

In the ranking Peru is in the 34th position around the world in the use of Facebook. This is an excellent opportunity to develop different aspects, such as tourism, communication, education, social issues, etc.

Peru is a country where new technologies and Internet access are growing in rural areas. Also you can get information in Quechua, this is the native language in Peru.

If you have any further questions about new technologies, you should read this blog.

The future of Thinking

It is very important know how will be the learning process in the network society. You can learn more about this important issue in this link

Tips to use Google

There are different things to use in Google. It is very important that you should know some tips to use Google, when you are looking to get specific information. Is a skill know the ways to use Google in the academic issues. So, you can get information about the use of Google in an important report that was published in New York Times.

To get this information you can link here

Facebook Reaches Top Ranking in US

Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week. Facebook.com recently reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th. The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame. Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week.

More information here

OLPC Pre pilot evaluation report Haití

This is an important information

Based on observational and usage-tracking data, four of the 17 activities available on the XO laptop (Record, Write, Browse Internet, and Paint) represented 88 percent of laptop usage for the XO Camp participants. Moreover, student exploratory usage of the XO declined under the following circumstances: (1) When XO laptop activities were formally introduced as part of a teacher’s lesson plan, (2) when interest in organized group activity increased, and (3) when student focus level was high. This was especially evident during Week 2 of the evaluation, when the fifth-grade class drastically reduced usage of the Paint and Record programs after being formally introduced to the Internet and receiving an essay-writing assignment.

More information here