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Palmeto Project & Laptop SC

One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina is a statewide partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and the non-profit Palmetto Project.

More information at: http://laptopsc.org/

In February 2008, Teaching Matters began a pilot project to give the XO laptop to one class of sixth-grade students at Kappa IV, a middle school in Harlem. There are three sixth-grade classes at Kappa IV, and the students in each class stay together for all their classes. The laptops were given first to one class first, chosen by lottery, and then to the other two classes at the end of the semester. The XO was to be used specifically for the final three units of a year-long Teaching Matters literacy curriculum, which was taught to all sixth graders, but the students were allowed to use them in other classes if their teachers allowed this. After the first two weeks, they were also allowed to take them home. Before they did so, however, the school held a meeting for parents, both to orient them to the XO as a computer and to respond to their concerns.

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OLPC XO - Is Compatability An Issue?

As soon as I heard about the OLPC project in late 2007, I wanted to research what others were saying before I jumped ahead to make a purchase. There were varying comments on several discussion boards.
One comment suggested that the XO laptops are ‘not compatible’ with the usual Microsoft software and that children who would seek employment in adulthood would not be able to function if they did not know how to use Word or Excel.

I had the opportunity to test one of these laptops and even my 3 year old son can utilize it in a basic sense. "Compatibility" is really not an issue.
The laptop teaches more free and creative thinking than regular machines.

Draft Proposal - San Carlos Apache eLearning Pilot Program

Draft Executive Summary

The strength of our unique offering is based on a partnership and synergy between five successful business and non-profit entities with excellent complementary educational skills and experience, including:

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Nicholas Negroponte - Keynote at Harvard University

Nicholas Negroponte keynote at Harvard University
Posted by Charbax in Nicholas Negroponte on August 13, 2007 - 9:31 am |
Nicholas Negroponte speaks about the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) at Internet and Society 2007, a conference at Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society. For more information, click here:
http://olpc.tv/2007/08/13/nicholas-negroponte-keynote-at-harvard-university/

Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience - New York Times

By DAVID POGUE
Published: October 4, 2007
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In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading. The laptop has a built-in video camera, microphone, memory-card slot, graphics tablet, game-pad controllers and a screen that rotates into a tablet configuration.
Stuart Goldenberg

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OLPC - One Laptop Per Child

The OLPC Mission: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.
The project's origins go back more than four decades to the early days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs, and almost no one dreamed they would ever be suitable for children. But pioneering thinkers like Seymour Papert disagreed sharply, and over time led the long march from radical theory to reality proving the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool for children.