I first heard about the $100 laptop while watching my "daily dose of information AND inspiration: TED Talks." I heard Nicholas Negroponte describe the ideas, ideals and goals of the OLPC program (one laptop per child).
Doing my part, I helped sponsor the program last year, and in doing so was sent $100 laptop to experiment with myself. Why would I want one? (Like I need ANOTHER computer!) Well, I want to stay "on the edge" of technology and education. The more I know, the more I can help...I'll be blogging about this journey here, and writing about it in other places on the web (quite possibly over at the www.SchoolGuides.org site as well...).
To find out more about the $100 laptop, please click this link: A learning tool created expressly for the children in developing nations.
The XO is a potent learning tool created expressly for children in developing countries, living in some of the most remote environments. The laptop was designed collaboratively by experts from both academia and industry, bringing to bear both extraordinary talent and many decades of collective field experience for every aspect of this nonprofit humanitarian project. The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra-low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of developmentâimmediately transforming the content and quality of their children's learning.
and, click on the "white space/text" below for a timeline from the one laptop per child website...
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