Sugar Learning Platform Will Succeed In Virgin Markets
2009-12-31 15:28:20
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I think is time that Sugar Labs and Sugar developers to realize that the success or failure of Sugar does not depend on its ability to play YouTube videos. Not because is not important but because there is very...
What We Are Learning From One Laptop Per Child
2009-12-30 15:25:06
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What has OLPC taught us?
Over on the Educational Technology Debate, we've spent the month of December analyzing what we've learned from OLPC after four years of deployments.
With input from a cross-section o...
Hello Laptop, Hello World, Hello Nicaragua with OLPC
2009-12-29 14:53:06
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Hello Laptop Hello World (HLHW) is a Harvard student organization and nonprofit. Over the past year, HLHW has launched two successful local pilots in Boston and Cambridge elementary schools. See "Cambridge Frie...
Expanding OLPC Content with DEMML XML Schema
2009-12-28 15:07:21
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Somewhere in a small village in some underdeveloped country there is a young boy. Let's call him Hidarth. Like over 121 million young children worldwide (1), Hidarth cannot go to school. There is no school in t...
Merry Christmas Microsoft: XO-1.5 to Run Windows 7
2009-12-25 15:05:06
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Buried under the XO-3 vaporware hype was more information on the very real XO-1.5 hardware that is a gift to Microsoft. Just read this paragraph from the One Laptop Per Child press release with my emphasis adde...
XO-3 Laptop Fantasy Distraction from Education Reality
2009-12-23 14:16:29
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If there ever was proof that Nicholas Negroponte wants a laptop project, not an education project, its the slick XO-3 images that Yves Behar and Nicholas Negroponte strutted out in Andy Greenberg's fluff piece ...
What Can OLPC Learn From Large Education Projects?
2009-12-22 15:05:50
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It is not a secret that education is one of the most viable ways to improve the quality of life. That is true at several levels and for the widest variety of communities. In developed countries, and in the US i...
Ghana Together Update: XO Laptops Make a Difference
2009-12-21 14:54:32
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We now have 37 OLPCs in Axim, Ghana with Ghana Together. Twenty are in the hands of individual children, one for one. They have access to them at any time they're in their Children's Home and not otherwise enga...
CherryPal beats OLPC to a $99 Africa Netbook
2009-12-19 15:08:12
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CherryPal just announced it's Africa Netbook available for sale today through it's website for a retail price of just $99, something that OLPC had promised years earlier and failed to
deliver upon.
While it...
Reflections on Australia Classroom use of XO Laptop
2009-12-18 15:02:53
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This reflection is meant to give an overview of one teacher's experiences with using the XO with students in a real life classroom. Largely on our own, we developed an implementation guide for other teachers to...