One Laptop Per Child

[jason]

Ex-Lemmingworks. ##.

Rochelle’s got a wonderful post up (Random Access Mazar » MLearn: One Laptop Per Child) and a bunch of others from the MLearn conference in Banff. JuliaD and I have been talking about zero cost computing pretty much since when we met, and watching the MIT One Laptop Per Child project has been interesting. Rochelle has brought up many of the questions we have had, and added some from the Librarian’s perspective as well.

Introducing computers and digital technology into a new environment always SHOULD make one think about what is missing, what must be taken away, and what is lost, MORE than what is merely gained. Debates that can answer the should we or shouldn’t we do this in a definite clear manner are pretty useless to me personally. The question is more that of seeing that it is going to happen, how do we maximize valuing of what is presently there so that what we add is additive rather than destructive. I’m happy to see the debate from as many perspectives as possible.

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I have to watch my students who use their laptop in class........

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

we have a wireless network and some try to do other things with the laptop (talk with buddies, etc) rather than just use it for educational purposes.

Re: I have to watch my students who use their laptop in class........

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

luckily the project is for people outside of G8. There's a program for the mac called ether peek or etherpeg that traps all images moving across the wireless network, so you can see who is doing what by seeing IM icons move about. We've sometimes projected them on a screen just for diversion.