The document summarizes an OLPC trial school project in Porto Alegre, Brazil. [1] The Luciana de Abreu school has 550 students split into morning, afternoon and night shifts, with 350 students participating in the project. [2] The project aims to create a reference school to showcase 1:1 learning, research its impacts, and develop a pedagogical methodology for Brazil. [3] Teachers receive weekly capacity building on hands-on, minds-on, reality-based teaching using learning projects determined by students' interests rather than traditional curricula.

1. PORTO ALEGRE - BRAZIL

2. Background about
the
OLPC XO
Trial School in
Porto Alegre

4. The Trial School
! E.E.E.F Luciana de Abreu
! 550 students
! 35 teachers
! 3 shifts:
! morning (grades from 6th to 8th and first
year)‫‏‬
! afternoon (grades from 1th to 5th)‫‏‬
! nitght (adults and youngth)‫‏‬

5. Only morning and afternoon shifts participate of
the project
! 350
students are participating the project
! 69 laptops were already delivered
2
! pre-literate
class – 6 years old students - (Jul 30)‫‏‬
! th grade (Ago 8)‫‏‬
3
! th grade (March 24)‫‏‬
4
! th grade (June 25)‫‏‬
5
! th grade (April 16)‫‏‬
6
! th and 8th (Ago 10)‫‏‬
7
! 3 teachers‫‏‬
3

6. Objectives of Trial School
! create a reference school to show the
potential of 1:1 learning - presidency
! research the impact of the 1:1 learning -
MOE
! develop the base of a 1:1 pedagogical
methodology for Brazilian scenario - MOE
! create reference materials to replicate the
experience in 2008 – newer request from
MOE

7. Teacher’s capacity
building
• 3 Groups
of teachers
• weekly
meetings
• in service
• Studies and discussions
about real class situations

8. Teaching
Characteristics:
• hands-on
• minds-on
• reality-on

9. Students and teachers
• working under a
decentralized system
• building learning
communities

10. Student’s monitors
• 7th and 8th grade
• tudents
s
• monitors help teachers and other
students during classes

11. The curriculum is based on the
design and development of
LEARNING PROJECTS
People in the Information and
Communication Society need to develop
competences, such as...

12. Learning to learn

13. Learning to live together
• Teachers learn through cooperative work with their
students.

14. Learning to
communicate
The students learn to
share their ideas and
tasks with their
colleagues working
together.

16. Learning to think
This kind of activity helps teachers to better
understand the students' concepts.

17. Learning by doing

19. Family and Community

20. • Learning being authors

22. leafagun@ufrgs.br
juliano@lec.ufrgs.br
marta@pensamentodigital.org.br
http://uca.lec.ufrgs.br/amadis
http://galeria.lec.ufrgs.br/v/projetos/uca
http://uca.lec.ufrgs.br

23. Traditional Learning
Classes Projects
Authorship: Who Teachers, Students and Teachers
chooses the Pedagogical individually and/or in
theme? coordination co-operation
Decisions based on Decisions based on
Which is the external and formal
context? student's real life
criteria
Who does it Curricula content Student's curiosity,
satisfy? sequences desire, will
How are decisions
taken? Hierarchically Heterarchically

24. Traditional Learning
Classes Projects
How are the Imposed by Established by the
definitions of rules, culture, follow group; students and
directions and determinations; no teachers reach
activities taken? options consensus
Which is the Transmission of Construction of
paradigm? knowledge knowledge
Which is the
teacher's role? Agent Stimulator/adviser
Which is the
Receptive Agent
student's role