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One Laptop Per Child & Serious Games

Speakers: SJ Klein

Track: SGS: Vision

Format: 60-minute Keynote

Experience Level: All

Description: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit humanitarian effort, to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops inexpensive enough to give every child in the world access to knowledge and modern education. OLPC is based on constructionist theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, and principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte's "Being Digital".

The OLPC project is young, but it is moving quickly and has attracted incredible support and creativity. The laptop was designed by experts from academia and industry with decades of collective field experience. The result is a harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra low-cost, durable, and power-efficient machine with which nations of the emerging world can transform the quality of their children's learning.

This presentation will discuss the potential of the OLPC as a serious gaming platform. It will address the hardware, OS, and game development support on the first wave of laptops that will debut later this year, and address strategies for learning through play that the OLPC team is formulating.

The OLPC team believes the serious games and greater game development community can play a vital role in their mission.

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