$10 Laptop – A Bust, or Is It?
According to The Times of India (January 30, 2009), the Indian Human Resource Development Ministry announced that the prototype for a $10 computer would be displayed on February 3rd. This re-ignited discussion regarding just how cheaply a notebook or netbook (see my earlier post Netbooks and Schools) computer could be produced. The XO computer by OLPC has yet to reach a price-point of less than $150 per unit and many doubt the ability of India to shrink this to anywhere close to $10. Jacqui Cheng of ars technica is skeptical of anyone’s ability to produce a $10 laptop: It doesn’t...
Read MoreK-12 Online Learning Increases Dramatically
According to a recent article in Education Week entitled Online Course-Taking Shows Dramatic Growth, the number of public school students taking online courses has increased dramatically over the past two years. Citing a report conducted by Sloan-C, the author points out the following: “Researchers estimate that more than a million public school students now take classes online, a 47 percent increase from the consortium’s original K-12 survey done in the 2005-06 school year.” What’s amazing about the report’s findings is that three-quarters of the schools surveyed...
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