Kerr, Stephen TGutschmidt, Breona Pearl2013-07-232015-12-142013-07-232013Gutschmidt_washington_0250O_11549.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/22901Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013In 2009, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non-profit organization ran a pilot program called OLPCorps Africa. The intention was to provide funds and one hundred of the group's iconic green and white XO laptops to volunteer teams partnering with established non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in order to deploy the computers in rural African locations. This paper reports evaluation data from one OLPCorps Africa deployment in rural Kenya and examines how a specific setting challenged assumptions about the nature of inducing educational change through technology introduction. Survey questions reveal significant decreases in students&rsquo perception of school as fun; questions about self-efficacy show no significant change; and responses about computers illuminate what students knew about computers before and after the intervention. These results raise provocative questions about the OLPC program, how OLPC&rsquos endeavor relates to its historic context, and a need for future research.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.Children; Computers; Constructionism; Information and Communications Technology for Development; Kenya; One Laptop Per ChildEducationEducational technologyComputer scienceeducation - seattleThesis