By David Sowerwine | Founder and Visionary
A reminder: our goal in this project -- Looma -- is to design, test, and see that this educaitonal tool gets into the hands of teachers and students in the most disadvantaged schools on Earth. (Less disadvantaged schools are welcome too)
The next stage in this all-volunteer effort is to equip one or more committed partners with a working set (20?) of the new model Looma 2. Partners from any country are welcome. At this time we are looking at sites in Nepal, Kenya, Central America and Bangladesh.
Success may be measured in the classroom by improved motivation, learning, participation, and attendence; in partner performance by their contribuion to the sharable open source pool of interactive applications, stimulating content and teaching insights; and by the partner's progress in scaling Looma within their own country.
Looma serves an entire classroom. An A/V classroom can be shared by a whole school. So the investment and maintenance cost per child is minimized.
Looma requires at most 85 watts, so a 12V battery system charged by solar and/or grid power is adequate and affordable.
And Looma can carry in memory all the nations's school books, a vast collection of supplementary content, interactive games, training videos, adult educational material...so it doesn't need the Internet--but can use it if available.
This summer student computer science volunteers will join in a 'summer camp' to improve Looma''s user interface and add new content and functionality.
Want to see how Looma works? Try it. It is now in HTML so works just like yoiur website: http://Looma.website
In our next update we will have more details on the partners and funding needs. For now we really need a qualified volunteer to coordinate the assembly of Looma 2 systems this summer. A description of this job is attached below.
By David Sowerwine | Founder
By David Sowerwine | Project Leader / Founder
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