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Now it is getting fun. Pixel Qi is the project of Mary Lou Jepsen (former CTO of OLPC). Their web site starts off:

What computing can be, the XO laptop was just the first step.

Pixel Qi is currently pursuing the $75 laptop, while also aiming to bring sunlight readable, ( Read more... )

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This is a neat path, sarting with northxsouth : free software news from latin america claiming “Corporatism threatens One-Laptop-Per-Child Project”:

Then, it was discovered that Intel was secretly pushing the Peruvian government to drop their order for OLPC computers and instead ( Read more... )

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People ask me why I’m doing work in virtual worlds when there aren’t any virtual worlds out there for kids… Well, yes there are, and there will be more of them soon: Virtual Worlds News: JP Morgan Bullish on Kids’ Worlds

Yesterday JP Morgan released its “Nothing But Net: 2008 ( Read more... )

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Two bits of interesting information. Intel leaving OLPC seems strange. I can’t imagine that OLPC would be crazy enough to demand a monopoly or foolish enough to not think that intel could support the project, so there must be something more involved. I’m not mindlessly pro-OLPC, ( Read more... )

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One Laptop Per Child - XO Giving

Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops-one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation ( Read more... )

We’re studying children as photographers in (c)cld419, and one of my students pointed me to this show that takes up many of the issues we’re interested in; seeing the world from the child’s perspective.

My Life As a Child Premieres February 26 at 7/6c

My Life As a Child documents the lives of 20 American children, between the ages of 7 and 11. ( Read more... )

JuliaD blogged about this youtube video called medieval tech support.

Aside from the giggle this will give to all of us who teach tech to newbies, any newbie in my class should see it, to remember that everything is new at some point.

Inside Higher Ed :: iCranky talks about a point close to my heart, as a teach-educator, just read and see. This isn’t someone who’s anti-technology, and I find it nostalgic to see someone talking about FTPing files. I find the whole tone of faculty workshops troubling, and engagement issues a bit like giving into marketting trends, and forcing ( Read more... )

Slashdot | One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released

“The One Laptop Per Child project has released information about its advanced security platform called Bitfrost. Could children with a $100 laptop end up with a better security infrastructure than executives using $5000 laptops powered by Vista? ‘What’s deeply troubling - almost unbelievable ( Read more... )

eSchool News online - ‘Augmented reality’ helps kids learn:

Researchers at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a project that uses “augmented reality” to teach students math and literacy skills. The project involves teams of students gathering data on handheld computers to explain why aliens have landed, and in ( Read more... )