A Child's Experience With the OLPC XO
I finally managed to get a child in front of the XO PC from the One Laptop Per Child project. I thought I would share my observations from watching her interact with this interesting tool.
I worked through many of the XO's activities with N'Chantis, from helping her figure out how to open the laptop to Pippy and Turtle to the Memory activity. I also worked with her in GCompris and the educational web service, Skills Tutor. She needed only basic instruction or guidance in most cases, and even figured out quite a few things on her own.
Opening the XO was not as intuitive as she thought, and a few prodding questions helped her think through how to go about it. I gave her a quick tour of the hardware features, and she powered up her XO.
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