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Chalana Perera

OLPC For You and Me | Things Are Good - 0 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS int systems applications IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • The cost of the machine has unfortunately increased from their proposed $100 USD to almost double that, in oprder to ensure that they can still get these laptops out to the kids they are selling them as pairs.
Chalana Perera

OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry - OLPC News - 1 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS applications int systems IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • 1. Windows XP would have been discontinued in 2007 or 2008 as was Microsoft's original plan
  • 2. The Windows XP licence for netbooks was lowered to $30 per device
  • 3. Netbooks are selling at a rate of 35 million units per year and represent more than 30% of the notebook market and this share is increasing.
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  • 4. Intel's profits shrank 90% between Q4 2007 and Q4 2008
  • OLPC is going to make the PC/Laptop industry realize that there is an alternative to X86 for full sized keyboard/screen computing.
  • prices and market trends obviously do matter for the education aspect of the OLPC project
Chalana Perera

Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students ... - 0 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS comm sys applications IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops for the world’s poorest children
  • The availability of Windows, in addition to Linux, on the XO laptop will allow customers to have an expanded choice of operating environments that best fit their requirements.
  • Transforming education is a fundamental goal of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, our ambitious effort to bring sustained social and economic opportunity to people who currently don’t enjoy the benefits of technology
Chalana Perera

The Fonly Institute: Problems with the $100 laptop - 0 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS applications int systems IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • Distribution problems
  • Hardware issues – power generation
  • Hardware issues – mesh networking
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  • When they have, connection is too slow to work properly in class-time. Wireless signal it is not strong enough, so they can't connect from home
  • What if each child had a smartphone or a netbook
  • it has not been generally validated as bringing about new paradigms of child learning
ajay tambay

Google Books Settlement Update (Rutgers University online newsletter) - 1 views

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SOCIAL Intellectual equality IMPACT education (Portfolio 2)

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    education impact on undergraduates
Chalana Perera

Stimulus: Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay - 0 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS applications int systems comm sys IMPACT education

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  • The total figure represents less than 5% of the country's education budget.
  • Linux operating
  • particularly those in rural areas, where many still do not have internet access
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  • some teachers have chosen not to include computer-related work in their lesson plans
  • last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers
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