Weekly Update: 3/26-4/1
Here’s what caught our eye this week and we think you might find interesting… How Machine-Based Tutoring Will Disrupt Human Tutors–Disrupting Class Loose Canons–Core Knowledge Blog Not Everyone Is Jumping on the Banned Wagon–The Innovative Educator How Much Does Blended Learning Cost?–the Journal E-Textbooks, What’s the Rush?–Linking and Thinking on...
Read More$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...
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