Weekly Update: July 1-5
iPod Touch in the Classroom– Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner The iPhone 3Gs– Daryll Johnson, edbuzz New Thoughts on Getting Started in E-learning– Clive Shepard, Clive on Learning NECC 2009– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class Documenting the Digital Generation– Henry Jenkins, Confessions High-tech cheating? Students see it differently– Julie Evans, e-School News Cell phones used to deliver course content– Dennis Carter, e-School...
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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