The GoGo Board: Moving towards highly available computational tools in learning environments
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This paper presents a new framework to tackle the lack of technology availability in learning environments such as schools. The framework is based on the hypothesis that the commonly heard reasons for the scarcity of technology, such as high-cost and complicated budgeting models, are side effects of centralized management styles and an exaggerated belief in the mass-production mindset. The new framework emphasizes communities as producers of their own tools. The GoGo board, a computer-interfacing micro-controller board, is presented as an instantiation of the framework. Preliminary observations of the GoGo board usage and assembly by schoolteachers in Brazil are presented.
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