Learning Without Schools: One Laptop Per Child

Why would kids who lack food and healthcare need laptops? OLPC's premise is that education helps solve those problems and that in places that lack schools, a uniquely designed laptop can help bridge the gap.

Interviewees from One Laptop Per Child:
⊳ Nicholas Negroponte, chairman
⊳ Seymour Papert, advisor (also MIT professor and inventor of Logo)
⊳ Walter Bender, president of software and content

2006

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.