Nueva School: Technology Partnership

Roster
Austin Cole (2)
Ethan Walker (2) will go to Extended Day after class
Tuvya Bergson-Michelson (1)
Parker Phillips (1)

Technology Partnership
In this class, students will study technology gadgets and their potential.
Simultaneously, students will study Third World countries and their schools. Students will then establish a technology partnership with a school in a Third World country via email and the internet. The goal of this class is to find a way to send one technology item to the partner school. Possibilities may include a new $100 laptop (http://laptop.media.mit.edu/), a solar panel backpack charging unit to charge phones and other gadgets, or a gadget that we discover together.

Mondays 1st-4th grade
3:30–5:00 Session I: Oct. 22–Dec. 10 No class 11/23 $320

Gadgets:
1. $100 computer
2. GPS receivers
3. Cell phone
4. Solar backpack
5. bicycle charger
6. Solar panel
7. Water distiller...

Countries:
1. Mexico
2. Kenya
3. South Africa
4. Congo
5. India
6. Belize
7. Vietnam
8. Iraq
9. Korea
10. Brazil

http://www.coolnewgadgets.com/
http://scientificsonline.com/
http://www.olpc.com/
http://www.zonbu.com/home/

Class Activities:
1. Talk about backgrounds.
2. Launch Google Earth
3. Visit your house.
4. Visit Kenya and Tanzania and look for Elephants roaming the plains.
5. Visit the great wall of china.
6. Visit Latitude 90 degrees North.
7. Give me 3 countries that are on the equator.
8. What country borders us to the South?
9. Where is the Sahara desert?
10. Where is Australia?
11. Where is Mount Everest, the highest place on earth?

Look at gadgets.
gps, cell phone, solar panel.


Day 2:

1. Check out the gmail account, and documents.

Review the OLPC.org
http://olpc.org
http://laptopgiving.org/
http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39168948,00.htm?r=1

Review Tracks4Africa

Day 3:
http://laptop.org
http://laptopgiving.org/
http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39168948,00.htm?r=1



Day 4:
Hide a prize...take 5 gps receivers, camera, solar car...
Talk about a fund raising effort,
Walk around the campus,
1. Note taker (teacher)
2. one photographer
3. 2 gps locators
4. Choose interesting things about the site

Day 5:
1. Take digital camera, and Lego kits, build a solar car...

Project: to make a solar car with legos that will move with lamp light.

Email:
tashabm@earthlink.net
nathaniel_michelson_ab92@post.harvard.edu

cole.nancy@gmail.com
dcole@ebay.com

carrphillips@post.harvard.edu
samphill@visa.com

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:AP1_39.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfV7hZGyGlk

Computer Explorers Technology Partnership

This will support Technology Partnerships at private schools. The goal is to support organizations like One Laptop Per child, which are trying to use technology to bridge the digital divide. We believe that education leads to opportunity.