The document discusses using One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers to create an authentic learning environment where students can actively construct knowledge through experiences. It proposes establishing an OLPC community of practice involving students, teachers, and tertiary institutions. The community of practice would support authentic learning activities that are relevant, complex, allow different perspectives and collaboration, and enable reflection.

1. olpc - messages for a community approach in education Tabitha Roder & John Roder

3. What we are going to talk about

4. The learner as an active agent in the ‘making’ and producing of knowledge - transformed through experience

5. New Zealand

6. Connecting olpc and tertiary

7. challenges

10. constructionism

11. "The 'playfulness' of childhood is the most demanding teacher that one could have; it makes us explore our world to see what's there, to try to explain what all those structures are, and to imagine what else could possibly be. Exploring, explaining and learning must be among a child’s most obstinate drives—and never again in those children’s lives will anything push them to work so hard." (Minsky, 2008)

12. olpc community of practice The Domain The Community The Practice

13. Induction

14. Roles

15. Pedagogy of unlearning

16. Communal knowledge

17. Tertiary – where to from here

18. Future of olpc CoP

19. Conclusion