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Raspberry Pi on Newsnight tonight | Raspberry Pi - 0 views

www.raspberrypi.org/237
shared by David Corking on 14 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • a computer so cheap my brother need not worry about breaking it. If I had something like that I would have been much freer trying out linux.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 14 Nov 11
       
      A great endorsement of the concept from a teenager.
  • computer in the hands of everyone will likely flood the market with mediocre programmers and make it more difficult for companies to discover the good ones. I have seen the destruction that weaker coders can bring to code bases, and while modern coding techniques largely mitigate the issues, I think that this move will have a positive impact on ‘better’ software houses and a detrimental impact on the rest of the industry.
  • The school buys a bunch of Raspberry Pis. Kids can bring their own SD card or buy 1 pre-configured and use the schools Raspberry Pi’s. Or pay a deposit (equaling the cost of a Raspberry Pi) and they can take it home and work on it in their own time. If they want to keep it they just let the school know and a replacement is bought with the deposit.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 14 Nov 11
       
      Great idea.
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Sugar Labs-learning software for children - 1 views

www.sugarlabs.org education children sugar olpc ict
shared by Miles Berry on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Originally developed for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook, Sugar runs on most computers.
  • David Corking on 20 Mar 09
     
    Home page for immersive and collaborative primary and elementary school learning software.
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[Grassroots-l] [support-gang] Change the World (FAST!) - 0 views

lists.laptop.org/...001084.html Computers in education Linux Open source Culture
shared by David Corking on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • > He needed (would still appreciate it) 30 XOs for one primary school class, > calculated everything using prices from G1G1. This is a good example, thank you... I will follow up off list; but you are right, this is the sort of project we are not supporting outside of G1G1.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 20 Mar 09
       
      OLPC is too much interested in bulk orders from countries to be a serious force in democratising education.
  • David Corking on 20 Mar 09
     
    By not supporting medium-sized deployments of, say 30 to 5000 laptops (a typical order from a school or an educational authority) the OLPC Foundation betrays an instinct for paternalism. We have too much paternalism in education already, and the technologies in Sugar were designed to give children democratic access to education.
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