LISD Ed Tech Connection

Watch and listen as Nicholas Negroponte briefly explains the one laptop per child initiative. There are roughly 1 billion children in the world, but many of them attend substandard schools with poorly qualified teachers or don’t attend school at all. Negroponte views the laptops as a way to learn the art and science of learning and leverage children for peer to peer learning. After laptop production, which may start in December of 2006 in 36 assembly lines, the plan is to deploy 5 to 10 million laptops in one country per continent, starting with big countries then moving to smaller ones. Negroponte told about 6,000 NECC attendees in his July 6th keynote address that Brazil and Nigeria may the early adopters of the laptop which operates on only 2 watts and can be powered by human hands as only about 50% of the world’s children live in homes with electricity. The project has the support of some big-time corporate partners, certain governments and many, many private individuals.
For more information, visit the official olpc project web site. The FAQ area is particularily helpful in providing details.

~ G. Marten, LISD Coordinator of Distance Learning

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