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OLPC Keynote from SITE 2008

March 14, 2008Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

Sorry that it took so long, but getting back to another crazy week finds me now, on the Friday might before MRA 2008, catching up on SITE. That said, I have one final set of notes and reflections, and this keynote was a good one. Dr. Antonio Battro, the Chief Education Officer for One Laptop [...]

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OLPC: Helpful or Harmful?

December 30, 2007Troy Hicks No Comments »

Over the holiday break, there has been an interesting discussing on the TechRhet list about the OLPC initiative. Aaron Barlow has been leading the con side of the debate, and outlines the argument in his blog, here, and points to articles about failed development projects such as the one here; the pro side generally gives [...]

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OLPC – We Did It, We Got It

December 21, 2007Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

Pulling into the driveway this afternoon, I saw the box perched on our porch. Like the many other holiday packages that arrive, I didn’t give this one much of a thought until I got it inside and began to look at the address label. Pretty quickly, I realized that the computers we ordered from the [...]

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