Organizational constructionism: a writable version of the OLPC deployment guide

As far as we understand it, constructionism is not something that you believe in, it is something that you do. At the student's level, constructionism is illustrated by what he does with his computer: writing, sharing, thinking. And back again. At the teacher's level, constructionism describes the way he creates a rich environment for learning: by providing students with new tools, by letting them find their way through their own mistakes, by indirectly supporting the transformation of information into knowledge.

The Four Letters of FLOSS: DOCS

Emacs Org-mode at the GNU Hackers Meeting 2011

The Orgfather

How to grow a local grassroot? OLPC France

Emacs Org-mode at FOSDEM 2011

The partnership between Wikimédia France and Toulouse

OLPC and Sugar: Mobility through the Community

This article was first published in October 2009 by interdisciplines.org (now defunct). Philosophers like to question language When I think about "mobility", my mind turns into a TV screen with this advertisement: a beautiful girl on a boat, updating her twitter status from her android-based smartphone. No wire. No keyboard. No sitting. The ad goes on and says: "Connected from everywhere, with everyone." Now, when I think of what "mobility" could have meant for Alan Turing, I guess it would have referred to the mobility of the various parts of the computing machine, as described in his 1937 paper2.

The ICT revolution in education hasn't happened yet