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What are the different one-to-one solutions?
Second Life session Sunday May 18th at 8:00pm EST!
There are many different 1:1 solutions out there for schools. I think some are better than others, and over the last couple of years we've seen the price fall on laptops to a point that it's hard to consider anything else. Yet, as fast as technology is changing who's to say that the laptop won't soon be replaced by something else.
First I'd like to bring your attention to the One Laptop Per Child program. MIT set out a couple of years ago to create a $100 laptop that third world countries could buy and distribute to children. A great cause, but what has happened over the past 2 years has revolutionize the laptop industry. As the program caught momentum companies were wanting to get on board by creating parts for the laptops at a price that would try and keep the $100 laptop at it's cost goal. It's hasn't quite happened yet as the XO Laptop costs about $150 to manufacture. But because of the program, companies from chip makers to monitors, to power supply companies have been forced to rethink how they create parts. There are now 3 models that are under $200. Intel release one earlier this year.
This holiday season the OLPC has opened up to allow others to purchase the laptops with a get one give one program. For $300 you get a laptop and give one to a child in a developing country. It's already on my list for Santa we'll see if I"ve been a good boy this year. :)
This of course opens a world of possibilities. If every child here in China was given a laptop, even in the poorest of villages what would that do? How would that empower them? The laptops have built in wireless, but it's not your standard wireless. Basically one computer needs to be connected to the Internet via a phone line. That laptop becomes a wireless access point for the other laptops to connect through. So even in the most rural of areas one telephone line is needed to connect a whole class to the Internet. Making a network classroom possible almost anywhere! At one point they were talking about (I'm not sure if it ended up happening) putting a local copy of wikipedia on the machine for students in their language. So here in China the student would get a laptop with a copy of the most connected, most current, largest encyclopedia in the Chinese language. Do some reading and searching on this cool little machine and think about how this could revolutionize education systems around the world. If students in Africa could connect with students in China and student in China could connect with students in the US to do projects, learn together, talk, listen, read, and write together....the network becomes even more powerful!
Do some research on some of these other types of machines that could be used in a networked classroom. Which best fits education? Of course trying to predict the future is difficult and with Microsoft releasing this in 2008 how does that add a whole other dimension to what learning and a classroom could be?
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Second Life session Sunday May 18th at 8:00pm EST!
There are many different 1:1 solutions out there for schools. I think some are better than others, and over the last couple of years we've seen the price fall on laptops to a point that it's hard to consider anything else. Yet, as fast as technology is changing who's to say that the laptop won't soon be replaced by something else.
First I'd like to bring your attention to the One Laptop Per Child program. MIT set out a couple of years ago to create a $100 laptop that third world countries could buy and distribute to children. A great cause, but what has happened over the past 2 years has revolutionize the laptop industry. As the program caught momentum companies were wanting to get on board by creating parts for the laptops at a price that would try and keep the $100 laptop at it's cost goal. It's hasn't quite happened yet as the XO Laptop costs about $150 to manufacture. But because of the program, companies from chip makers to monitors, to power supply companies have been forced to rethink how they create parts. There are now 3 models that are under $200. Intel release one earlier this year.
This holiday season the OLPC has opened up to allow others to purchase the laptops with a get one give one program. For $300 you get a laptop and give one to a child in a developing country. It's already on my list for Santa we'll see if I"ve been a good boy this year. :)
This of course opens a world of possibilities. If every child here in China was given a laptop, even in the poorest of villages what would that do? How would that empower them? The laptops have built in wireless, but it's not your standard wireless. Basically one computer needs to be connected to the Internet via a phone line. That laptop becomes a wireless access point for the other laptops to connect through. So even in the most rural of areas one telephone line is needed to connect a whole class to the Internet. Making a network classroom possible almost anywhere! At one point they were talking about (I'm not sure if it ended up happening) putting a local copy of wikipedia on the machine for students in their language. So here in China the student would get a laptop with a copy of the most connected, most current, largest encyclopedia in the Chinese language. Do some reading and searching on this cool little machine and think about how this could revolutionize education systems around the world. If students in Africa could connect with students in China and student in China could connect with students in the US to do projects, learn together, talk, listen, read, and write together....the network becomes even more powerful!
Do some research on some of these other types of machines that could be used in a networked classroom. Which best fits education? Of course trying to predict the future is difficult and with Microsoft releasing this in 2008 how does that add a whole other dimension to what learning and a classroom could be?
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