Website review: One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a low-...
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•61 reviews since Jul 14, 2004
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ravindranathakil rated 3 weeks ago- Help them please!
- icecreamlover553 rated 8 weeks ago
- Laptops=Education? I dunno.
- organicpuzzle rated 3 months ago
- Sure kids in third world countries need to be educated, but with laptops? Are they all being trained for future tech support outsourcing? If you give a shit about this project, you could go over there to yourself to teach and feel good about yourself.
- Cyclohexane01 rated 3 months ago
- Oh yeah, because disease and food and water aren't important. What is important? Laptops!
- operondus rated 3 months ago
- how bout some mothafuckin food for those guys?
- Lisakruger rated 4 months ago
- I hate laptops they are useful to ppl who are always on the move
- Evillemon rated 4 months ago
- Great cause
- proximal2u rated 4 months ago
- many children--especially those in rural parts of developing countries--have so little access to school--in some cases just a tree--that building schools and training teachers is only one way--perhaps the slowest way--to alleviate the situation. While such building programs and teacher education must not stop, another and parallel method advised by OLPC is to leverage the children themselves by engaging them more directly in their own learning. It may sound implausible to equip the poorest children with connected laptops when rich children may not have them, but it is not. Laptops can be affordable and children are more capable than they are given credit for. The XO is a potent learning tool created expressly for children in developing countries, living in some of the most remote environments. The laptop was designed collaboratively by experts from both academia and industry, bringing to bear both extraordinary talent and many decades of collective field experience for every aspect of this nonprofit humanitarian project. The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra-low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of development--immediately transforming the content and quality of their children's learning. The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop. A technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. For $399 have 1 for Your Child & 1 for a Child in Developing Nation! Here is another worthy cause. Update: It appears as if this post is no longer a worthy cause. http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/intel-breaks-up.html
- nugat rated 5 months ago
- The OX is a nice little tool once you get to know it. The first time you try one, it may seem so-so. It doesn't have the processing muscle of a desktop PC, but it is perfectly designed for its intended niche... poor children with no resources. It uses very little power (it can run on a small solar panel), nor does it need much power running linux and a package of slim apps. The design is so simple, a child can replace the battery, mainboard or display. And while all this sounds minimalist, certain key components are anything but: the display can be read in direct sunlight, and its rabbit-ear antennae have quite a range. The OLPC does have critics, most pointing out that the $100 price 'went up' (current price is $188 USD, I believe). In fact the price has come down, just not as far as the developers want it to... yet. I suspect a lot of critics are in the pocket of either Microsoft or Intel, whose products are not included in the OLPC. The Intel/Windows-based Classmate compares poorly with the superior engineering of the OX. I've tried both, but more importantly, I've watched kids try both. The OX is a big winner. If OLPC has a problem, it lies with the politics of getting it distributed, particularly when unscrupulous competitors try to undermine it.
