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- Time for some new teacher laptops
- I just got my budget for next year and, while it's meager as always especially since I have some new sizable lease payments to take care of, it looks as though I can finally begin refreshing teacher laptops. This begs the question, though, what kind of laptops should I...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- An argument for laptop carts
- Laptop carts are handy in any setting, but it can be difficult to justify the cost. While laptop prices continue to fall rather drastically, it still remains cheaper to set up a desktop or thin-client lab than purchase 20-25 laptops and a rolling cart to hold and charge them...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- OLPC spawns another non-OLPC
- No matter how you feel about the One Laptop Per Child project, there is no doubt that it is influencing computing, especially mobile computing, in a number of important ways. Intel has already announced a competing product aimed at emerging markets (much to Nicholas Negroponte's chagrin) and today, ASUS announced...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Students welcome law school prof's ban on laptops
- Laptops may be a blessing for law students who take copious notes in class, but one law professor has banished them from his classroom, reports the Wall Street Journal Citing students lack of attention due to the many distractions offered on the Internet, Prof. David Cole is making his...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- What did we ever do before laptops?
- Laptops are quickly joining mobile phones in the ranks of technology we cant live without. David Berlind refers to this sort of thing as "Dead Finger Tech," the pieces of technology that you could only pry from our cold dead fingers. I probably spend a fair amount more...
- Tags: Mobile, K-12, Funding, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- DE schools excited about switch to laptops
- Students entering school at Easton High School in Delaware will be doing most of their work on new laptops, a change that has both teachers and students adjusting to the new technology, reports the News Journal "Its an adventure," Principal Kelly Griffith said during last weeks tour. "Were all...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Should Education IT care about OLPC?
- Youve all heard me rail-on about Nicholas Negropontes brainchild called "One Laptop per Child" and nothing has changed to alter my opinion. But now my fellow bloggers at ZDNet are wondering if Microsoft should be worrying now that this long-dreamt-of $100 laptop, running an extremely thin ROM-based Linux client,...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- SC plans to build Wi-Fi across state, give out laptops to 8th graders
- A new proposal introduced in the South Carolina legislature would give every eighth-grader a laptop computer - and the state would develop a statewide wireless network, reports the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. "This will give South Carolina a unique competitive advantage in terms of economic development and will liberate students who...
- Tags: Education Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- One laptop per child - even in US suburbs
- As the One Laptop Per Child program OLPC moves into the developed world, software companies are jockeying for position in what could be the largest distribution of laptops to students ever, reports Linux Insider. The OLPC program has long-term plans to sell a slightly higher-priced version of the cool...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Hardware, OLPC
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- One Laptop per Child ... a new perspective
- In my most recent post, Its not what their losing, its what they stand to gain, I came across a response from Antonio M. Battro, the Chief Education Officer of the One Laptop per Child association. I want to publicly thank Mr. Battro for his response and to share...
- Tags: Notebooks, Antonio M. Battro, laptop computer, textbook, One Laptop per Child
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- AZ schools boss wants a personalized plan for every student
- One Laptop Per Student? The goal of giving a laptop to every child in the world may still be a few years off but Arizona schools may be able to give a a laptop to every student - and fund other technology-based programs as well, if Tom Horne, the...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Want one of Negroponte's laptops? Buy two and you can have one
- Arent those OLPC laptops so cool? Dont you wish you could get your hands on without having to move to a developing country? Well, now you can buy, not one but two nifty laptops, according to the BBC News. Although the focus of the One Laptop Per Child project...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- One Laptop project: A key breakthrough or just an 'easy fix'?
- With One Laptop Per Child slated to ship millions of child-friendly computers off to developing countries soon, The Christian Science Monitor questions whether this will be a helping hand out of poverty or another technological boondoggle. The hallowed halls of USAID are filled with new inventions to help developing...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, laptop computer, computer
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Alaska commits to a laptop for every middle schooler
- Students at Wendler Middle School in Alaska are busily typing away on their new laptops - and teachers and administrators are hoping that access to the technology will help them learn more and have fun while they are cruising the Internet, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The verdict...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Theyre
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Soon, children will get one laptop each
- After much ado, the One Laptop per Child project has announced that its $150 laptops in the hands of people in developing countries by July 2007, reports the BBC. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand are the first countries slated to receive the brightly colored laptops, now...
- Tags: laptop computer, DigitalDivide, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Intel offering Brazil a $400 laptop
- There is a newcomer in the race to bridge the digital divide in Brazil. Intel is donating $400 laptops to Brazils government, directly competing with the One Laptop Per Child project OLPC, reports the Associated Press. Intel will donate 700 to 800 Classmate PCs for a government evaluation...
- Tags: laptop computer, DigitalDivide, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- That one laptop is now running $150
- The now infamous $100 laptop of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC has just gotten a dubious promotion to $150, but is slated to ship out in 2007, reports News.com The prototype laptop was shown off this week at the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit, held...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, laptop computer, One Laptop per Child
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
Additional Resources
- Relax, kids...Windows 7 is just another OS
- finally...someone with sensefor all this noise and fireworks, finaly someone here says something reasonable7 is just another OSand yes it is.amen.give this man a raiseIt doesn't have to rock to be successfulIt merely needs to be fast, stable and secure. If that's all it does, then there's no reason to...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Netbook or a cheap Compaq for students?
- Re: Netbook or cheap CompaqThe problem I see at least in my organization it is never 1:1. Sometimes I wish we could get away with a netbook or using some of our older desktop hardware for lighter 1:1 usage. We bought a small cart of Netbooks...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Compaq Computer Corp., netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
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