Apr 09 2008
ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD, WHAT AN EXCITING CONCEPT.. Read on to find out more….
Ban Sanikha, Thailand – how the students are using the laptops.
The OLPC team has created this incredible opportunity. They have constructed a Laptop computer called the XO laptop; this has been designed ‘to provide children with the access to libraries of knowledge, ideas, experiments and art – to provide a window to the world’.The XO laptop was created to make it more so affordable for children in developing and developed countries to own their own laptop. By providing them with a laptop it will enables the learners to connect to a mesh – network to make available a high-band width wireless connectivity within the home, community or within the school, it is able to connect a whole community as well as people around the world.Children can play, learn, explore, exchange, you can just about do anything you wanted to do. Momentarily there are many schools trialling the program; Porto Alegre Brazil, Galadima Nigeria, Ban Sanikha Thailand, Cardal Uruguay, Arahuay Peru and Khairat India just to mention a few which were listed on their website.If the XO laptops are as great as they sound I believe they should be introduced in Australia, for example in the Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory where they are working hard to use the resources they have available, this may assist them to provide the children with better access to a worth of information.
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