Hot off the presses: According to an eSchool News article, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has revived their program as of May 20th, and has disclosed plans for a second generation of "XO" computers. If you pay $400.00 , you will purchase one laptop for yourself and then you will provide another laptop to a child in a developing country. The original program was trying to offer the computers to each child for $100.00 each. The price right now is estimated\ at $188.00. So far, over 600,000 of them have been sold and 162,000 were purchased through the "give one get one" program. The second round of the "give one to get one" program will begin sometime this summer and anyone can participate.I think this is a great opportunity to teach children about global issues our world faces today. What would be better than having some type of fundraiser to raise $400.00 for this program. Why not donate both computers? Just something to think about!
Check out this post from the Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy blog about the 1:1 initiative and how they might be switching the platform over to microsoft windows!
Some people think that laptops for children may not be a good idea. Read this article. What do you think?
4 comments:
I just popped over here from TTT.
I have one of the original XOs and I have been following this story with great interest.
Take care
Kevin
I think we had the same train of thought yesterday. I think the XO program is very exciting, check out my post written within hours of yours ;) Thoughts on OLPC
Sherry
Thanks for commenting Kevin and Sherry. I think it is great and I hope to organize something next year at my school to raise some money for the XO project. I think it would bring a lot of interest to the school and kids. :)
A heads up - It would be a good idea to remove the last paragraph from this post asap. The domain has changed - Mark
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