Interview with Seymour Papert - Speaking on behalf of the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC).
A mathematician by training, Seymour Papert was one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence. He is also internationally recognized as a primary thinker regarding computers and pedagogy for children.
One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give One Get One Program in North America through December 31, 2007. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.
For more information, please call 1-877-70-LAPTOP or visit http://www.laptopgiving.org/
Interview with Nicholas Negroponte - Speaking on behalf of the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC).
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.
One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give One Get One Program in North America through December 31, 2007. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.
For more information, please call 1-877-70-LAPTOP or visit http://www.laptopgiving.org/
Interview with Walter Bender, speaking on behalf of One Laptop per Child, where he is the President of Software and Content.
One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give One Get One Program in North America through December 31, 2007. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.
For more information, please call 1-877-70-LAPTOP or visit http://www.laptopgiving.org/
Interview with Masi Oka - Speaking on behalf of the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC).
One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give One Get One Program in North America through December 31, 2007. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.
For more information, please call 1-877-70-LAPTOP or visit http://www.laptopgiving.org/
The Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama wants to provide every first through eighth grade student with a laptop computer. The latest plans are for 15 thousand XO laptops to be delivered as soon as possible, possibly as soon as when the students are back in school after the Christmas holliday in January.
“We think that change has to be dramatic. You’ve got to be big, you’ve got to be bold. And what has happened is that there has been an effort to say ‘don’t take any risks - just do something small, something incremental’. It feels safe but by definition what you are ensuring is that nothing happens” says Walter Bender on the BBC.
Professor Bender said there was still an “aggressive” effort to undermine the charity. “There is still a concerted misinformation campaign out there,” he said. Mr Bender said he would not speculate on who was behind the alleged campaign. “Wherever it is coming from, it exists,” he told BBC News. But he said the main problem for OLPC was dealing with conservative politicians. “Change equals risk especially for politicians. And we are certainly advocating change because the [education] system is failing these children,” he said. “It has not been that processor versus that processor or that operating system versus that operating system - it’s been small thinking versus big thinking. That’s really the issue,” he said.
“Uruguay is first then it will be Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia then we are going to be doing stuff in Haiti, Rwanda and Mongolia,” said Mr Bender. In addition, he said, OLPC had done a deal with Birmingham, Alabama, in the US, to provide the laptop for schools in the city. “The numbers of countries where we have trials set up is also increasing,” he said. Tests were also going on in the Solomon Islands, Nepal and India.
