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• ANYWHERE: The book

  
  Yankee Group Blog — Authority: 124
  First it was an idea… then it became a company-wide research mission… now it’s a book. Today we start talking publicly about something we have been working on at Yankee Group for much of this past year: our first mass-market book. If you have worked with us recently — or even if you have just visited our web ...
  1 week ago

• Actively Reading: OLPC Critique

  
  Disparate — Authority: 402
  Critical thinking has been on my mind, recently. For one thing, I oriented an  ”intro. to sociology” course I teach toward critical skills and methods. To me, it’s a very important part of university education, going much beyond media literacy. And media literacy is something about which I care a great deal. ...
  1 week ago

• Android + Netbook = Droidbook

  
  Gizmotastic — Authority: 128
  The Netbook sector has matured since the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). There has been a lot improvements with speed, graphics, screen size, battery life and features. Growing pains came with the growth spurts in the sector. The biggest pain is the choice of operating system (OS), Windows or Linux.The first wave of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Thread - Kids changing the world

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 438
  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 weeks ago

• NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 92
  - 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 weeks ago

• Two Roadblocks to Transformation We Have Yet to Address

  
  Ed Tech Journeys — Authority: 100
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2nd gen e-book machine dropped by OLPC—but group will do a paperlike 3rd gen device

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Making Books Available

  
  Sayamindu's Ramblings — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• One netbook per child out, One tablet per child in

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 611
  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 [...]
  3 weeks ago

• PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century | Bobbie Johnson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 514
      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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 885
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• [news link] OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75

  
  F-Default — Authority: 514
  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: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPC—Hints at Paperlike Design for Third Generation Laptop

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  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, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gonk the Power Droid costume (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 698
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sony, Google Point the Way Toward a More Open Future for E-Books

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Negroponte/Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing Countries

  
  Principled Profit — Authority: 116
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• All 1.6 million Internet Archive books to be available on the OLPC

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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