India Laptops

Western Australia gives a first impression of a land dominated by miners. Fluro and silver strips appear on clothing everywhere it seems as the south (settled in the 1800′s by white traders and farmers) becomes the hub for a younger north west that is facilitating extraction of the millenia old gas & mineral fruits of the deep earth & ocean. Sometime after such fuels were first laid down, the original inhabitants, oldest of the Earth’s Indigenous peoples, became resident

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Journal of an OLPC Australia Deployment in Warralong

Students in Birmingham City Schools, Ala., are building their technological skills and interests while engaging in collaborative learning thanks to XO laptop computers. XO computers are rugged, low-cost, low-power laptops that have become familiar to people around the world through the One Laptop Per Child project.

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XO Laptops Inspire Learning In OLPC Birmingham

Going green is a good thing these days and Asus are jumping all over the green scene with the launch of their 100 per cent recyclable laptops. Of course Asus have had to odd green influence with the bamboo covered laptop, but that was more design that actual green, however the U range of computers are greener in they are totally recyclable as it uses 75 per cent less plastic. Here are the specs and features of the wonderful Asus Green Machine with bamboo: 13 inch U33Jc, 14 inch U43Jc and 15.6 inch U55jc are just 31 – 34mm thick, Core i5-450M CPU with Nvidia GeForce 310M 1GB graphics and Optimus Technology, USB 3 ports, a 500GB hard drive, 2GB of DDR3, U33 comes with a 8 cell battery weighs 1.8kg, but the U43 and U53 ship with larger 6 cell battery are heavier from 2.1kg to 2.76 kg respectively.

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Asus go green

I haven’t ever been directly involved with the OLPC program, although I have followed it for a number of years, and I think the conclusion of OLPC: How Not to Run a Laptop Program by Mark Warschauer is rather harsh. OLPC taught us a number of good lessons.

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OLPC’s Approach is Like Throwing Seeds Out of a Moving Truck

Congratulations to Apple for selling 300,000 iPads on the first weekend. I’m sure the product will be come a great success for the company. But while die-hard Apple fanboys were celebrating, this tweet from a spoof Steve Jobs caught my eye: While the idea that the iPad will sell for $99 in two years is compelling, I’m more interested in what’s gonna happen to all those 1st Generation iPads and even iPod Touch, when their owners upgrade to the next and newest Apple creation

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How to Recycle Apple iPad to Replace OLPC Laptops

The East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda) recently signed a memo of understanding with OLPC to “leverage the advantages of the laptops in transforming primary school education.” I want to reiterate Tim Unwin’s reservations and build on my earlier comments in OLPC News to say that providing each child with a laptop will not by itself improve, let alone transform, primary education in East Africa. Rural school OLPC XO usage First of all, having visited schools in rural East African villages where most of the region’s children are, I can say that there are numerous practical challenges to providing a computer to each student when there are up to 80 students in a primary classroom sharing four or five students to a desk, with a teacher that is over worked and under prepared, in schools that do not have electricity or internet access

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OLPC Alone Will Not Transform Education in Africa

Every public school student and teacher in Uruguay now has a free laptop. How is this changing education — and what might this mean for the broader society? Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal: What Happens When *all* Students and Teachers Have Their Own Laptops Thursday, 13 May 2010 / 12:30 – 2:00 PM MC4-800 World Bank main complex building, The World Bank 1818 H St

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What Happens When ALL Students and Teachers Have XO Laptops?

The whole point of the 1-to-1 concept is that each kid has a laptop of his own, to grow, explore, develop, together with others but fundamentally on his own, following his own curiosity, interests and giftings, at home, in school, “under a tree”. It is (meant to be) his tool, his learning tool, and where everything else fails (school, teacher quality, access to books, etc), maybe his only tool out of poverty.

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How to learn when 53 percent of XO laptops are broken?

In reading ” Is OLPC East Africa for 20-30 Million Children For Real? ” my thoughts have not changed much since my OLPC article about ” Moshi Rural Teacher Capacity Building Workshop “. That the 5 East African nations realize that education of their youth is the way to improve the future for their nations is commendable

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Thoughts on One Laptop Per Child in East Africa Community

I have been highly critical of the general OLPC approach, which emphasizes mass distribution of XOs to children in the poorest countries, with neither pilot programs, nor evaluations, nor sufficient attention to the broad array of social and technical factors that help make a laptop program work.

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Plan Ceibal: A Better Designed and Supported XO Laptop Implementation Program

In a public report with limited distribution dated July 10 2009, Inspectors G.Aramburu and Y.Delgado of the Initial and Primary Education Council of the Public Education Administration of Uruguay present what I believe is the first ever published and so far only instance of large-scale objective research of an indicator of XO use in education. Examining impact on XO children See the full report here: Circular 10 Técnica July 10 2009 See the project lineup here: Circular 6 Técnica May 8 2009 This most valuable piece of research regarding the impact of the OLPC concept almost risked to be passed over and forgotten. While at OLPC News we go to considerable effort to bring you up to date information, somehow we missed this, and despite its importance and being almost a year old by now, these documents have not yet been mentioned in any research data list I am aware of

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First Ever Objective XO Laptop Usage Research Results

Wow, talk about some great ideas floating around! That was my first reaction two weeks ago when I first learned about what would eventually become the ” olpc realness summit ” that Waveplace’s Timothy Falconer announced last weekend: What a great location! Waveplace is pleased to announce the OLPC REALNESS SUMMIT. No hype No bashing No wireless No room service Just straight talk about what works, what doesn’t, and why we do what we do. WHERE: Maho Bay Camps on the island of St John, US Virgin Islands (steps from the beach) WHEN: May 28, 29, 30, 31 HOW MUCH: $300 for four nights, including lodging Twelve invited talks and discussions, three a day, from five continents and the Caribbean: * WAVEPLACE: Tim Falconer * OLPC: Adam Holt * SUGAR LABS: Bernie Innocenti * ASIA: Mike Dawson from the OLPC Afghanistan * SOUTH AMERICA: Marta Voelcker from Brazil and Carlos Rabassa from Plan Ceibal, Uruguay * AFRICA: Beth Santos from the Step Up OLPC (São Tomé and Príncipe) * EUROPE: Christoph Derndorfer from OLPC Austria * CARIBBEAN: Lunise Cerin from Haiti, formerly of USAID and Save the Children, and John Engle of Haiti Partners * NORTH AMERICA: Christine Murakami from Columbus School for Girls, Ohio The summit will take place at the same time as Waveplace trains 40 new mentors in three schools which shall lead to some interesting overlap in terms of discussions and real-life observations

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Waveplace organizes OLPC REALNESS Summit

Recently, One Laptop Per Child and the East African Community announced they are partnering to try and bring OLPC to the 20 million children in the Republics of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Rwanda and Republic of Burundi.

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Is OLPC East Africa for 20-30 Million Children For Real?

This is a very interesting deal between Viliv and Dynamism, where prices staring at just under $700, there is also the possibility of a free spare battery with certain models, a $70 rebate to finish things off nicely and mounts up to nice saving of around $180! Here are some of the details and specs of the brilliant Viliv S10 Blade: 10.1 inch convertible netbook with a high resolution 1366 x 768 display, 10 hour battery, 1GB RAM, an Intel Silverthorne processor (either a 1.6GHz Z530 or 2.0GHz Z550), options for XP or Windows 7, as well as HDD/SDD choices.

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The Viliv Blade Goes On Sale

The children of the Gaza Strip are busy working on their new OLPC machines that were recently delivered through United Nations project which is aiming to get half a million of these useful little laptops into the area and into the hands of these children. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) arranges for the children in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan to get schooling and these computers make that job a little bit easier. Here are some of the features and specs of the OLPC machine: CPU: x86-compatible processor with 64KB each L1 I and D cache; at least 128KB L2 cache; AMD Geode LX-700@0.8W (datasheet); CPU clock speed: 433 Mhz; ISA compatibility: Support for both the MMX and 3DNow! x86 instruction-set extensions; Athlon instruction set (including MMX and 3DNow! Enhanced) with additional Geode-specific instructions; Companion chips: PCI and memory interface integrated with CPU; North Bridge: PCI and Memory Interface integrated with Geode CPU; AMD CS5536 South Bridge (datasheet); Graphics controller: Integrated with Geode CPU; unified memory architecture; Embedded controller: ENE KB3700 or ENE KB3700B; DRAM memory: 256 MiB dynamic RAM; Data rate: Dual — DDR333 — 166 Mhz; 1024KB SPI-interface flash ROM; Mass storage: 1024 MiB SLC NAND flash, high-speed flash controller; Drives: No rotating media; CAFE ASIC (Camera, Flash Enabler chip, provides high-performance Camera, NAND FLASH and SD interfaces); Marvell 88ALP01: (CAFE specification).

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OLPC Deliver 2,100 Machines To Gaza

Yes kids, its time we all got funky fresh on the world’s largest social networking site: Facebook! OLPC News on Facebook OLPC News now has a page on Facebook . It will be joining our forum and Twitter communities. Together, they bring you the most breaking news, vibrant commentary, and overall discussion of One Laptop Per Child and its global activities

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At PS 5 in the South Bronx, New York City, every student has an XO laptop. To document the impact these computers have on the school, the fifth graders produced a documentary highlighting their experience with One Laptop Per Child: Learn the history of OLPC and the Teaching Matters experience through narrative and teacher and student interviews. You’ll even get a history of Nicholas Negroponte and a demonstration of the XO laptop itself.

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Teaching Matters XO Laptop Project Documentary

In countries like Afghanistan (where I live) those without disabilities may not be able to access education. The needs of the deaf, blind and those with other disabilities (physical and psychological) are often neglected.

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One Laptop Per Child Can Help Students with Disabilities

One Laptop Per Child likes to say that its XO laptop helps elevate the poorest children in the world through education. But there has always been doubt that computers – technology of any kind – should come before clean water, safe food, and other basic necessities. Dr

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3 Reasons Why OLPC Latin America Proves XO-1 Market

This Wednesday, the Educational Technology Debate – an initiative of World Bank and Unesco to explore the impact of low-cost ICT devices on educational systems in the developing world is is coming to India with a live debate to be webcast around the world: Are most investments in technology for schools wasted? Wednesday April 21, 14;00 – 16:00 New Delhi Time ( your timezone ) Hosted by the World Bank office Delhi, India RSVP to Join Us The live Educational Technology Debate will employ the classic Oxford-style debate process to engage noted experts in the field on the following motion: Most investments in technology for schools are wasted: Discuss There is a general consensus that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as radio, TV, computers, the Internet, and mobile phones can increase educational experiences and improve education. But is this opportunity being overhyped

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Are Most Investments in Technology for Schools Wasted? – a live debate on Wednesday