Regular updates and musings on curriculum and technology in the Salisbury Township School District in Allentown, PA.
$100 Laptop
The $100 Laptop Project has been in the news recently. I’ve often wondered what the implications of this program will be for our education system in America. If the program is a success, will children in other countries (since that is what the program is focusing on) have a greater advantage in this “flat world” we presently live in? Will we be behind? Will it matter?
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I read this on a discussion board for the Connectivism Conference. It pertains to the $100 laptop initiative:
“How come we are in this world situation where one laptop per child is on the agenda for the third world, while in the first and second worlds we still have computers chained up in special rooms with limited access?”
The answer to your question might just reside with Oprah and her $40 Million school in Africa.