[Year 12 IT Apps] $200 laptop scheme starts production

[Donna Benjamin]

And... 
if you'd actually like to SEE one...  

I've attached a picture of Martin Dougiamas, [keynote speaker last year] - playing with the OLPC at the linux.conf.au Open Day in Sydney earlier this year.  Of course this was an earlier model/prototype.

Even better though - we'll have one at the VITTA conference!
Tuesday Session 2405 at 2:30pm

One laptop per child
Presented by Joel Stanley.

Influenced by the constructionist theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte and his colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab formed One Laptop Per Child, an organisation tasked with producing low cost, rugged educational tools for the world's children. Joel Stanley spent 10 weeks at MIT as an engineer working on the development of the laptop. He will demonstrate the laptop, highlighting the features that make it a very useful educational tool in the classroom, the playground and at home.

:)

- donna


----- "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> "The One Laptop Per Child Program, which hopes to spread sub-$200 
> computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, has reached a 
> milestone with the start of mass production.
> 
> The nonprofit spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
> said assembly lines for its "XO" laptops were fired up Tuesday at a 
> Chinese factory run by manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc. That means 
> children should begin getting the green-and-white computers this
> month."
> 
> (note - your browser may break the following URL)...
> 
> http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/H/HUNDRED_DOLLAR_LAPTOP?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-11-07-10-56-03
> 
> 
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-- 
Donna Benjamin
Conference Co-ordinator
2007 VITTA Conference and Expo
Rethinking Education: You say you want a revolution?
19-21 November, The Grandstand, Flemington Racecourse
http://www.vitta.org.au/2007

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