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Uruguay project

Steve Cisler — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:59:34 -0500

Lisa, At this time when national projects are just getting under way, there have not been any evaluations, just hopeful speculations about the benefits of XO programs. I recommend you watch what is going on in Uruguay, the first country to place a sizable order: uguay.html... And there is the Birmingham, Alabama, public school project which will be scrutinized rather closely.

But how will it be used to provide rich and engaging education

Lisa Neal — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:06:46 -0500

Great post - I would love to hear more about how the laptop will be deployed and used. eLearn Magazine had an article (http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=43-1) on the laptop, and I have read more about it since, but have yet to hear much about how this will provide rich and engaging educational opportunities for the intended recipients.

One Laptop Blazed Trails, But Slipped in Race for Sales

Abigail Keene-Babcock — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:25:10 -0500

January 11, 2008 - 14:00, CS Monitor

Nonprofit slips in race for cheap laptop for world's poor kids

Story Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0111/p03s04-stct.html

Teaser:
By Ben Arnoldy

Problems at One Laptop Per Child show how social entrepreneurs can blaze trails but miss the payoff.

The vision was grand: Develop a cheap laptop and get it into the hands of 150 million school children in the developing world.

Making the computer turned out to be the easy part. On Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child, showed off the $200 XO. The innovative computer sports a bright screen readable in sunshine and a highly efficient battery that can be recharged by cranking it.

By Ben Arnoldy

Problems at One Laptop Per Child show how social entrepreneurs can blaze trails but miss the payoff.

The vision was grand: Develop a cheap laptop and get it into the hands of 150 million school children in the developing world.

Making the computer turned out to be the easy part. On Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child, showed off the $200 XO. The innovative computer sports a bright screen readable in sunshine and a highly efficient battery that can be recharged by cranking it.