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Insane XO prices!!! Every Laptop must go!!

Wayan Vota and I are agreed that Nicholas Negroponte is crazy. What divides us is the question whether Nicholas is crazy enough. (I am indebted to Niels Bohr for making this distinction early in the 20th century in the context of quantum mechanics.)

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:55:44 -0800

Xtra Ordinary 2010: the XO Laptop OS Evolved

I was checking out the forums of some recently added items to the On-Disk.com catalog when I found a really interesting post about recent updates to Enlightenment .17 (aka E17). I had been following development of E17 for several years, and it has replaced other desktop environments numerous times on my PC, but I always ended up going back to something else simply because there were just too many things missing.

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:56:43 -0800

Sugar Learning Platform Will Succeed In Virgin Markets

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 little chance to penetrate this market dominated by Microsoft and Apple.

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:28:20 -0800

What We Are Learning From One Laptop Per Child

Brazilian OLPC
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 of interested parties - learned academics to experienced educators to volunteer implementers - here is the One Laptop Per Child impact we've found:

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:25:06 -0800

Hello Laptop, Hello World, Hello Nicaragua with OLPC

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 Friends School OLPC Pilot by One for All".

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:53:06 -0800

Expanding OLPC Content with DEMML XML Schema

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 the village where he lives and it would take him far too long to walk to the nearest school several villages away. His village has no phones or internet connections.

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:07:21 -0800

Merry Christmas Microsoft: XO-1.5 to Run Windows 7

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 added:

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:05:06 -0800

XO-3 Laptop Fantasy Distraction from Education Reality

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 "The $75 Future Computer".

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:16:29 -0800

home!


what i have done since i came home:

-worked out

-spent 12 hrs a day each day this weekend helping/watching a gymnastics meet

-learned to judge high school gymnastics

-ate, slept, and all that good stuff.

i miss high school when i could live and breathe gymnastics all the time, but at least i get a nice three week dose of it now :)

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:42:14 -0800

What Can OLPC Learn From Large Education Projects?

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 in particular, access to good education stands as the most important aspect for social elevation.

In developing countries that is even more so, considering that a lack of education (in the broader sense) may be at the base of social conflicts, discrimination, impoverishment, lack of stability, prevention socio-economic reform, increase in infant mortality, and lack of health, hygiene, and sanitation standards.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:05:50 -0800