Thailand Nixes One Laptop Per Child
Thailand Nixes One Laptop Per Child: A September coup effectively ended the career of Thaksin Shinawatra, the Thai prime minister whose cabinet had pledged to buy 250,000 of Mr. Negroponte’s $100 laptops, according to The Nation, a Bangkok newspaper. Thailand’s new administration now says it has no interest in the project, which would have provided […]
Read MoreDoom on the $100 Laptop
Doom on the $100 Laptop: Who needs textbooks when it’ll run Doom? Engineers from the One Laptop Per Child Project have posted videos of themselves playing the videogame Doom on the new children’s laptop. Up next: the Darfur game? ======== had to see this coming…. from education project to edutainment project to…..
Read MoreOne Laptop per Child category
I made a new category and re-categorized my one laptop per child posts so that people can find them. In general, I am against the principles of OLPC on many grounds, mostly to do with lack of technical support, educational purpose, and the general lack of awareness or outright willful dismissing of prior work in […]
Read MoreA $100 laptop prototype for $150 | CNET News.com
A $100 laptop prototype for $150 | CNET News.com: The One Laptop per Child project on Thursday showed off the latest prototype of what’s widely known as the $100 laptop for school children in developing nations. The only hitch is that the computer costs $150 to make. Walter Bender, president of software for the Massachusetts-based […]
Read MoreThe $100 laptop: What went wrong – MSN Money
The $100 laptop: What went wrong – MSN Money: Anyway, in general a free computer to everyone on the planet it interesting. The tool is cool. And there are many massively problematic issues involved. But that’s interesting is that this article is publishe din MSN Money. MSN isn’t part of this. I’ve read the M$ […]
Read Moreindia rejects one laptop per childIndia rejects One Laptop Per Child | The Register
India rejects One Laptop Per Child | The Register : issed the laptop as “pedagogically suspect”. Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee said: “We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools.” Banerjee said if money were available it would be […]
Read MoreI'll take a million please
I’ll take a million please: The $100 laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child project just got its first major order – 1 million for Nigeria. I would love to own one, if its internals were swapped with a MacBook. These things will be a serious nerd fetish item when they become available, and a […]
Read MoreOne Laptop Per Child Project Abandons Hand Crank
One Laptop Per Child Project Abandons Hand Crank: One Laptop Per Child Project Abandons Hand CrankOne Laptop Per Child project abandons hand crank in favor of a foot pedal attached to the AC adaptor. Negroponte also says Linux is too “fat” for the 500 MHz AMD processors they plan to use. -dj —– interesting…. a […]
Read MoreMIT Media Lab Guru Says No Computers in Schools
MIT Media Lab Guru Says No Computers in Schools: Michael Schrage of the MIT Media Lab wrote a piece for The Financial Times saying that there should be no computers in schools. He argues that billions could be saved by keeping useless technologies out of schools. As an educational technologist, I felt that I needed […]
Read MoreMore dialogue with TMTTLT: Push back…
More dialogue with TMTTLT: Push back…: We seem to be more in agreement than not.I’ll resist the slide from “computing devices” to “technology,” but probably nothing turns on that anyway. The laptops are valuable at least as much for their interactive, networking potential as for their other computing possibilities, maybe more. Plenty of people in […]
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