One Laptop per Child at Home

OLPC delivers an educational ecosystem to create innovative learning experiences which enable children around the world to build their knowledge.

One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a ...

One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru by Diether W. Beuermann, Julian Cristia, Santiago Cueto, Ofer Malamud ...

One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was a non-profit initiative that operated from 2005 to 2014 with the goal of transforming education for children around the ...

About OLPC

OLPC was born with the unique purpose of facilitating access to technology as a way to combat the educational gap with the most underprivileged children in ...

One laptop per child? More like one failed charity project for me! I ...

It is in some respects similar to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) trade association's Children's Machine (XO), which has a similar target market ...

1 One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a ...

experimental study of providing OLPC XO laptops for use at home on children's social, educational, and cognitive outcomes. We designed and ...

The One Laptop Per Child Program Was Supposed to Revolutionize ...

OLPC did not turn out as planned: Laptops broke, and in areas where charging was a challenge. Children showed little interest in the ...

One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a ... - GRADE

The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use outside the home. Children randomized to receive ...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO-1 Laptop - YouTube

Yesterday I found a XO-1 laptop at a thrift store for $12. I bought it and messed around with it at home. Check out all the things I ...

Technology and educational choices: Evidence from a one-laptop ...

I estimate that the program increased students' access to a home computer ... The one-laptop-per-child program in Uruguay. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a ...

One Laptop per Child Program Falls Short, Study Finds

The program also encourages children to take the devices home, but some principals and parents, worried they might be damaged, have insisted that the laptops ...

One laptop per child at home: Short-term impacts from a randomized ...

The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use outside the home. Children randomized to receive ...

One Laptop Per Child is not improving reading or math. But, are we ...

A few months ago, the first randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) came out as a working paper (you can find a brief ...

Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program by Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarrarán, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and ...

Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru

This paper presents results from a randomized control trial in which approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending ...

The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning

Fairlie and Robinson (2013) find that the use of computers at home has no effect on children's educational outcomes, while Vigdor and Ladd (2010) and Malamud ...

Inside the digital society: lessons from little laptops - LSE Blogs

Once again, children are trying to learn from home, often on an ... Some readers may remember One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). It was ...

One Laptop Per Child - DR1.com

One of the videos for OLPC, is narrated by a child who is walking home from school through a South African shantytown (not much unlike the ...

One Laptop per Child - The OLPC Wiki

Every child of any means in the developed world has access to a computer at home and usually his or her own, with music, DVD, plus interactive ...

Case Study: Why One Child Per Laptop Didn't Work

In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte founded the non-profit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization. ... And they go home at night—they 've got a ...