Cheap Kids' Laptop: 'Ultimate Learning Tool'
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The One Laptop Per Child Project, placing technology with developing nations, could revolutionize education.
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Nonprofit and chipmaker have faced off over low-cost laptops in the past, but they're coming together to bring PCs to kids.
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The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project is going on sale: buy two, get one. But it's still a good deal.
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ARAHUAY, Peru -- Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.
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The One Laptop Per Child project to lessen the digital divide is in full swing.
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The One Laptop Per Child Foundation indicated Monday that it might begin selling a version of the "$100 laptop" it is now producing for educational use. The system would become available by the holiday season for a price of about $350 USD.
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InfoWorld - A laptop under $100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by the formerÂ CTO of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises.
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A versatile portable device can play a role in tests, note-taking and homework, and even act as a blackboard.
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Parents are keen to monitor their children's progress in education with new technology, a survey suggests.
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By C.S. Lee  DEAR Editor,  THE other day, I read an interesting interview with Microsoft's Bill Gates.  One of the things he mentioned was the introduction of a light- weight computer that children can bring to school to replace heavy textbooks.
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Nicholas Negroponte thinks everyone in the world should have a computer. His nonprofit OLPC wants to build and distribute the world's most-affordable laptop, priced at less than $100 and aimed at youngsters in the developing world.
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Another classroom success story, thanks to the affordability and flexibility of Linux.
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By TOBY WALNE  A COMPUTER is a standard piece of kit for today's student, but buying the latest technology need not break the bank. It is possible to buy a reliable computer for less than Pounds 500 and there are plenty of student discounts for software and peripheries.
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The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.
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Young people are now the savviest of the tech-savvy, as likely to demand a speedy broadband connection as to download music onto an iPod, or upload digital photos to their Web logs.
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Designed for schoolchildren in developing countries, these inexpensive, stripped-down portables are drawing lots of interest from the gadget set.
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By ANDREW DENHOLM EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT  THOUSANDS of primary school children are still without any "meaningful" computer access a month after the introduction of a new system worth GBP15.5m, teachers claimed yesterday.