The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."[1] Its current focus is on the development, construction and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.
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This Is How We Dream, Part 1 - 0 views
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The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?
One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
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OLPC lists five core principles:[7] Child ownership Low ages. Both hardware and software are designed for elementary school children ages 6–12. Saturation Connection Free and open source
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This is the wikipedia description of OLPC. It consists of many aspects of the project.
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The concept of OLPC is a fascinating one. There are many issues with trading inside Africa but perhaps the coolest aspect of this is the "mesh" concept where one computer literally grabs internet off another OLPC that is nearby. The hand crank is also very cool as well.
Online, teachers walk a fine line | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY - 1 views
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And some districts -- from South Dakota to New Jersey -- are starting to limit what teachers can do on the sites.
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"It is the responsibility of all individuals associated with the Foundation to act in a manner that will ensure the public's trust as well as the trust of colleagues and peers.
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Last month, district officials investigated an e-mail from an unidentified "concerned parent" that included pictures of a woman clad in only a bra and underwear. The photo allegedly was taken from a Sunrise Elementary teacher's MySpace page. The teacher was not identified, and the photos did not show the woman's face.
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Teachers have a different standard. It is fascinating to read this newspaper article and also the responses. Our students on Flat Classroom project and Digiteen will be reviewing this information because teachers are held to a higher standard online.
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Read this to understand that teachers don't really have a personal life online.
flatclassroom09-3 - Workflow Software - 4 views
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Skype.
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Make sure that you justify how skype is part of workflow software. Also, you may want to pull out how the new skype lets you screenshare and record a movie of that and has all these productivity add ins to help workflow go.
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we sit down and really think about it
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This should be written like a wikipedia article in 3rd person so you'll want to rewrite this - also the current news section needs quite a few hyperlinks. How about all of the Google Docs and google type things that let you compute in "the cloud" -- also, things like timebridge let work flow around the world. Look at other things that help people work together like Elluminate, for example.
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Our project ( WFS) will be u
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Not sure I understand this- but I will give you some examples here - how about SIS (student information systems) like SASSY and Powerschool that let teachers and administrators look at information from home or school and also let work flow from one person to another.
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Workflow software can be used many ways for a government as well as politics and employment. Working as a group simultaneously is very important to fulfill some kind of difficult work, like administrating works such as Microsoft Sharepoint . Since the work that big companies do is very complicated and intertwined over and over with the part that do not really seem to be related that much, workflow software is almost mandatory to practice. Same as in politics and employment, the organization, association use this program for more efficient work capabilities (for their own profits). Many companies are using "computing in the cloud" which are free technologies like -
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Students 'Mix It Up' to promote tolerance | The Montgomery Advertiser | montgomeryadver... - 0 views
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Such programs are fascinating ways to help promote getting along and working with others. "National Mix It Up Lunch Day, now in its 10th year, is coordinated by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program. It served as the catalyst Tuesday for millions of students, including some locally, to cross social boundaries and foster respect for one another."
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Now when a school has a good idea, they can post it on the Internet. The battle against cyberbullying is one example of how this is happening.
Music technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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Talks about how music technology has improved.
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Ben Please put the information you find on that webpage into your own words, and consider carefully your school's policy on using any wikipedia information. It is not acceptable to use in most high schools, any universities, and not in any doctoral level programs. Can you back it up with two or three other sources?
negative impacts of the world wide web on education - Google Search - 1 views
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Computers, the internet, and cheating among secondary school ...pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=9&n=9Cached - SimilarYou +1'd this publicly. Undoby S Conradson - Cited by 14 - Related articlesPermission is granted to distribute this article for nonprofit, educational ... And the vast realms of information on the truly, worldwide Web are so readily available. ..... policies that carry seriou
'Flipped' classrooms take advantage of technology - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Thsi article talks about the use of technology in a high school classroom setting. In some cases, technology has become the new tool of choice instead of the tradtional whiteborad and textbook.
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Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin
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allows students to time-stamp lecture notes
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Online Schools, Online Degrees - Education Connection - 0 views
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Education Connection
iPads in School - 0 views
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This site is about iPads in classroom but overall I think it is about wireless interaction in classrooms.
The Internet's Significant Impact on Education - online education - 1 views
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This describes some ways that the internet affected education through cyber- schooling.
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