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UD computer science students create teaching aids
Three teams of four students spent Winter Session collaboratively problem solving how to manipulate Myro robots and how to create learning games for young children who have received an XO laptop from the One Laptop per Child program.
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of MIT, Nicholas was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Nicholas serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.
MIT working on $12 Apple desktop
A new project to create a £6 computer is underway at MIT, the same University that spawned the One Laptop Per Child non-profit laptop.
Mini-Notebooks Compete on Size, Speed and Price
When Intel announced the availability of its low-power chip, the Atom, at Computex in Taiwan this week, it signaled that the age of the cheap mini-notebook had finally arrived.
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Because we are educators in the United States, our experiences and perspectives are going to be somewhat America-centric. However, we believe that the themes of Did You Know? are global in nature and apply to schools and children around the world.
Ten Thousand Cents
Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.
Intel's Netbook revealed as FTEC SmartBook, mystery solved
The ruggedized laptops for kids (at least, initially) are manufactured by Malaysia's own FTEC and will carry a SmartBook moniker.
OLPC News: A CEO Search Result: Negroponte Leaves One Laptop Per Child
He says the organization has been operating "almost like a terrorist group, doing almost impossible things" for three years. Now, he says, it needs to be managed "more like Microsoft."
Negroponte: OLPC Machine Will Be $50 in 2011, Electronics Are "Obese" | Wired Science from Wired.com
Negroponte ran through a list of the organization's accomplishments, noting that they had half a million machines in their pipeline and that production had reached 110,000 units per month.
Wanted or Not, Windows is Coming to the OLPC Laptop | Compiler from Wired.com
Microsoft is actively developing an XO-friendly version of Windows XP
Open Source Poised for Surge in Education
According to the report, open source software (OSS) "is proving a success because institutions believe that their current IT applications are falling at the wayside--and by using open source software they will be able to gain further control over their so
eSchool News online - Webcast highlights low-cost computing options
Nearly everyone involved in educational technology has heard by now of the XO computer, the $188 laptop specially designed for kids in developing nations. But there are other low-cost, ultra-portable computing devices that schools should be aware of, too,
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