The new Infinity:One has grown from the OLPC project and from a visual point of view, there’s a definite family resemblance. (Excuse the clutter in that pictures, I hadn’t got a clearer one of just the OLPC; which is currently in a packed away in a box with the Pi) Both also use low cost…
Category: Digital Divide – Majority World/Gender/etc.
Raspberry Pi vs ZX 81
My first computer was a ZX 81 – cost £69.95 (assuming Wikipedia’s correct; I can’t remember!) That’s c £236 (This is Money) or 0.3% of an average house (House Price Crash). Came with 1kb of memory (expandable to 16kb) – Operating System & Keyboard inc; monitor required (monochrome output). The Raspberry Pi goes on sale…
ALT-C 2009 (2)
One of the sessions I attended was the Online Identity workshop run by Frances Bell, Josie Fraser, James Clay & Helen Keegan. As usual from that crowd it was interactive, thought provoking & they’d set up an accompanying Wiki. They started off by asking us to write our names on a postit. Trustingly we all…
Ada Lovelace Day 09
Ages ago, I signed the pledge to write a blog post for Ada Lovelace Day – about a woman in technology that I admire. I then wondered who on earth I’d write about; there are quite a few I could think of off hand, but trying to think of someone who I felt had really…
$10 laptop?
I’ve written several times about the OLPC (aka $100 laptop) – and have one. (I like curiouslee’s viewfinder for it!) There is now a plan in India to create a $10 laptop – which they intend to launch at India’s National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technologies The BBC’s report did note that they…
Lego Mindstorms NXT for the XO Laptop
Lego Mindstorms NXT for the XO Laptop That could be interesting … will be keen to hear how people get on. An earlier post also covered the start of the Pacific project – which, from a personal point of view, interests me….
OLPC getting going
I’m working on the OLPC now. I’ve beenable to get it on line at home, though not at work. it’s got a range of inbuilt activities, the most exciting probably being the acoustic measure, which lets you measure the distance between 2 OLPCs. Shame I’ve not got another to test it with! I’m rapidly coming…
OLPC
I’ve finally got mine! I’ll not post photos – there are enough around; that said, I was expecting the outside to be smooth white, not bumpy….
OLPC Education Project Should Take an Opportunity to Learn
Wayan Vota makes some comments on a Wall Street Journal article about the OLPC. He comments, as I’ve said before, that it’s not just the hardware. It’s the software that’s worth looking at (See Alexandre van de Sande’s post about the interface; a very clear explanation – emphasising the community aspects of learning) We aren’t…
Reconsidering Digital Immigrants…
Henry Jenkins looks again at the “Digital Immigrants/ Digital Natives” debate. Jenkins points out: Talking about youth as digital natives implies that there is a world which these young people all share and a body of knowledge they have all mastered, rather than seeing the online world as unfamiliar and uncertain for all of us….