{"id":1249,"count":7,"description":"This month's Educational Technology Debate will build on <a href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=e4459b3b23139d81a6c335119&amp;id=4d2c101efe&amp;e=4b793dd6c4\">a Technology Salon<\/a> that took a deep dive into OLPC in Peru with the Inter-American Development Bank. The IDB is conducting a multi-year randomized evaluation of the impact of the OLPC project in Peru - the first rigorous attempt to examine the impact of the largest \"1-to-1 computing\" initiative in a developing country.\r\n\r\nBuilding on their <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/edutech\/OLPC-peru\">initial report<\/a> in 2010, we will be discussing their <a href=\"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/OLPC_Peru_IDB_Report_Synopsis.pdf\">second report<\/a>, that examines the academic achievement and impacts on cognitive skills that XO laptops facilitated in a 15-month randomized control trial with 21,000 students in 319 schools.","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/archive\/olpc-in-peru\/","name":"OLPC in Peru","slug":"olpc-in-peru","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}