$100 laptop status (Now for only $150)

$100 laptop status (Now for only $150) December 31, 2006

Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos, OLPC.
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MIT is famous for many education related innovations in technology, with the latest being a foray into providing low cost laptops to undeveloped nations. Based on open source designs and software, the XO Machine, as it is currently being called, is described in an article from Yahoo Business. One of the more interesting quotes is listed below.

“In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint,” Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. “I consider that criminal, because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools.”

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061231/hundred_dollar_laptop.html?.v=3

Also covered by the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6224183.stm

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