One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Typewriter – Phonics, Vocabulary and Typing
Stanford University School of Education Masters Project

Abstract

In January 2005, the MIT Media Lab launched an initiative to develop a $100 laptop – a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. For these children to participate and take advantage of this opportunity however, typing skill is essential. At the same time, learning and mastering the English language is crucial. English is the predominant language of the Internet today. We see an opportunity to combine both objectives through an interactive, research-based typing and language learning application, for the target users of the ‘Children’s Machine’ focusing on typing, and two important English language learning building-blocks, phonics and vocabulary

Resources

Wiki - http://code.google.com/p/typewriter
Download (windows zip run game.exe) - http://ldtdev.stanford.edu/~yhkok/typewriter.zip
Download (python OLPC source run game.py) - http://ldt.stanford.edu/~oaneto/Final.zip
Parent / Teacher Guide - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddwdg3qd_23c8nwzh
Project Proposal - http://ldt.stanford.edu/~oaneto/Revised Project Proposal aneto_yh.doc
Final Presentation - http://ldtdev.stanford.edu/~oaneto/typewriter/OLPCTypewriter.ppt

Contacts

Yeong Haur Kok - yeonghaur at gmail dot com
Aneto Okonkwo - oaneto at gmail dot com

Acknowledgements

Barbara Vana, Amelia Maynes, SJ Klein, Joe Chen, Matt Brown, Trung Minh Lai, Tyler Hunter, Shelley Goldman, Piya Sorcar, Kihyun Ryoo, Eric Grant, Mark Basnage, Rolf Steier, Cory Lee, Sava Saheli Singh, Sherwin Cheng, Brandon Suzuki, Greg Warman, Vic Vuchic, Nicole Sanderson, Debbie Heimowitz, Laura Bofferding