OLPC Friends/Australia's first deployment Australia's first
trial included 3 locations and connected up specialist teachers
in urban Australia with children in rural and remote communities
that needed specific education services including for literacy
and behavioural issues. As such we believe this is the first
trial in the world that has really connected up classrooms and
people between remote locations, which we are really proud of!
We are also looking at incorporating speech-to-text into the
trial to assist hearing-impaired children in the classroom.
Below is the technical documentation and when we are able to
make the further details public we will. This trial is being
done in collaboration with both Government and Education
partners and will be publicly announced in February 2009.
Learning Activities Although this is not a full list of the
educational outcomes, as they are still being assessed and
compiled, please find below a list of how the laptops are being
used in the Australian classrooms of this t