Analysis of an one laptop per child program in educational institutions in exclusion and poverty zones: Peru case

Abstract

This article presents the experience in two educational institutions (EEII) of Regular Basic Education (RBE), in areas of poverty and extreme poverty of Huancavelica, Peru, using computers in a one laptop per child (OLPC) program. The purpose is to assess the use of ICT and its incorporation into the educational process in these contexts. The methodology is qualitative: first, it was done the diagnosis of the socioeconomic context to know the worldview about the use of ICT and education. Then, the policies designed by the state in the EEII studied and their implementation in relation to the development of the national curriculum were identified. Finally, the evaluation of this experience through semi structured interviews, anecdotal records, direct observation, audio records, photographs and videos; whose underlying information accounts for the experience based on the testimonies and the documentary review on the use of ICT. Among the findings, it is pointed out the need to improve policy orientation to overcome the digital divide, as a situation of educational exclusion that remains in the area studied, as well as the difficulties of the one-to-one approach (OLPC) in the region.

Keywords. Social exclusion, poverty, education, ICT.