Ethan Zuckerman from World Changing had a chance to talk to Nicholas Negroponte recently about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Ethan’s report sheds some light on this attempt to build a laptop computer cheaply and ruggedly enough for students in developing nations.
The 1-to-1 project in my own school district has shown me the value of “one laptop per child.” I’ll watch this project with great interest.
Scott Roiger and I gave our presentation on the Hopkins 1-to-1 computing project this morning. I think it went pretty well and we were fortunate to get a mixer installed in our room so that we could record the session. This may be the first session ever podcast from a T+L2 conference.
Download: STP-NSBA-1to1 (26.9 MB, 58:31)
I placed the single largest order of my career today. Within hours of Apple announcing the new and improved iBooks we placed a nearly $670,000 order for 650 of them. Now we need to find a place to store them while we get them inventoried and imaged. Pretty exciting. Our second training session is coming up next week and I’m really fired up to get back together with these teachers and do some intense curriculum and technology work.
I’ve decided to use a blog as the main Web page for the project. I thought it would offer an ideal way to engage some of the one-to-one participants in telling their stories. If all goes as planned we’ll have some really interesting stories to tell.