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Open Thread - Kids changing the world
ePluribus Media —
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From the One Laptop Per Child News Blog: OLPC Video of Twinning Canadian and Kenyan Schools Hi, my names Amal Chandaria, and Im one of the four students from Upper Canada College who researched, designed and deployed an OLPC laptop implementation program at the Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya in March 2009. ...2 days ago -
NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education
Women News Network - WNN —
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- PUNITA RIMAL / correspondent - Women News Network - WNNNepal has always been classed as a developing country. In the U.S. it is often called a “third world” country. And it may well remain that way unless Nepal can break out of the vicious cycle of exploiting its people, particularly its women. One strategy ...2 days ago -
Two Roadblocks to Transformation We Have Yet to Address
Ed Tech Journeys —
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Hundreds of educational technology bloggers and conference speakers hold forth on the need for transformational change in our educational system, and the conversation can get pretty lofty and philosophical. I am a strong advocate for transformational reform; but it seems to me there are two very serious roadblocks in ...4 days ago -
2nd gen e-book machine dropped by OLPC—but group will do a paperlike 3rd gen device
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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One Laptop Per Chlld has “ scrapped plans unveiled in May 2008 for an e-book-like second-generation XO laptop , instead focusing on an upgraded version of the current XO and designs for a ‘3.0’ version of the device that will be ‘more like a sheet of paper.’ So reports Xconomy . Photo shows the dropped ...4 days ago -
Making Books Available
Sayamindu's Ramblings —
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Its all over the web now – the Internet Archive has opened up over 1.6 million books for the OLPC XO laptops and in general, any machine running Sugar. Before going into anything else, it makes sense to provide a more specific meaning of “opening up” here – it involves two main objectives completed at the ...5 days ago -
One netbook per child out, One tablet per child in
TECH.BLORGE.com —
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The man heading the One Laptop Per Child program says the next technology produced under the scheme will likely be a tablet device rather than a netbook. He has also come up with a new target for the cost [...]5 days ago -
PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century | Bobbie Johnson
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
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8-bit computers shaped the west – now one firm is taking the same spirit of exploration to children in India and China It is nearly two years since Derek Lomas, then a graduate student on an internship with the communications giant Qualcomm, stumbled across a unexpected find while browsing a Bangalore market stall. ...1 week ago -
Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
F-Default —
Authority: 561
It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2 , would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped Read more from the original source: Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC ...1 week ago -
Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
Gizmodo —
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It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2 , would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped . Almost worse than the news that well never see this folding, hybrid LCD/E ink budget ...1 week ago -
[news link] OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75
F-Default —
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From Liliputing : Remember that dual-touchscreen concept machine that the One Laptop Per Child folks were working on? Yeah, its toast. In a recent interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that the team is killing off the XO-2 project and instead focusing on an XO Laptop version 1.75 Continued here: ...1 week ago -
Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPC—Hints at Paperlike Design for Third Generation Laptop
Xconomy —
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IT , One Laptop , Hardware Wade Roush wrote: After the October 24 announcement that the Internet Archive is about to make 1.6 million e-books available free to children with XO Laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation , we decided it was time to catch up with OLPC’s founder and chairman, ...1 week ago -
Gonk the Power Droid costume (link roundup)
Super Punch —
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Gonk and Jack Skellington costumes from i09s costume roundup . And a few more links: 1. Character design and storyboards for a One Laptop Per Child ad. 2. Lego Batman costume . 3. Janosz Poha and more ghosts from Ghostbusters. 4. Ghostly Lego minifig . *Previously: Long essay explaining OLPCs ...1 week ago -
Sony, Google Point the Way Toward a More Open Future for E-Books
Xconomy —
Authority: 714
wwwade , e-books , IT Wade Roush wrote: In a presentation at the Boston Book Festival last weekend, Jon Orwant, a Google engineer involved in the company’s Book Search project, made a memorable and, I thought, quite perceptive remark about the e-book business. “Think about the books you have at ...1 week ago -
Negroponte/Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing Countries
Principled Profit —
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Horace Mann, founding President of Antioch College, famously said “Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity.” Neither Nicholas Negroponte nor Iqbal Quadir will ever have to worry about shaming themselves in front of Horace Mann’s ghost. These two M.I.T. professors have both made substantial ...2 weeks ago -
All 1.6 million Internet Archive books to be available on the OLPC
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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This is really wonderful news. Brewster Kahle, director of the Archive, whose picture appears above, announced this in Boston last week. The entire collection of the Archive has been re-formatted to display on the OLPC in an effort that took over a year of work. These books will be available to the 750,000 to 1 ...2 weeks ago -
Uruguay Becomes First Nation To Provide A Laptop For Every Primary School Student
Tech News Time —
Authority: 145
Uruguay’s been a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child initiative for quite some time, and while we’re still unsure if it’s the entity’s biggest customer, the aforesaid nation is certainly doing some serious business with Nicholas Negroponte and Company . After the first swath of youngsters received their ...3 weeks ago -
Uruguay becomes first nation to provide a laptop for every primary school student
MainGadget —
Authority: 162
Uruguay’s been a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child initiative for quite some time, and while we’re still unsure if it’s the entity’s biggest customer, the aforesaid nation is certainly doing some serious business with Nicholas Negroponte and Company. After the first swath of youngsters received their green ...3 weeks ago -
Uruguay becomes first nation to provide a laptop for every primary school student
KIJO —
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Uruguays been a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child initiative for quite some time, and while were still unsure if its the entitys biggest customer, the aforesaid nation is certainly doing some serious business with Nicholas Negroponte and Company. After the first swath of youngsters received their green and white ...3 weeks ago -
Uruguay becomes first nation to provide a laptop for every primary school student
Engadget —
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Uruguays been a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child initiative for quite some time, and while were still unsure if its the entitys biggest customer, the aforesaid nation is certainly doing some serious business with Nicholas Negroponte and Company. After the first swath of youngsters received their green and white ...3 weeks ago -
Uruguay becomes first nation to provide a laptop for every primary school student
The-Informer —
Authority: 157
Uruguay’s been a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child initiative for quite some time, and while we’re still unsure if it’s the entity’s biggest customer, the aforesaid nation is certainly doing some serious business with Nicholas Negroponte and Company. After the first swath of youngsters received their ...3 weeks ago
