Posted in News, olpc, tagged KAPPA IV, students, XO on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Friday, Solangel Brujan (Teaching Matters’ consultant at KAPPA IV), Briony Carr (principal of KAPPA IV), and I introduced the XO project to the entire sixth grade class. I developed a presentation for this introduction. Our goal was to get the students excited while outlining our expectations that they take responsibility over their learning with [...]
Posted in News, olpc, tagged OLPC hidden SSID, OLPC school wireless, OLPC WEP, OLPC Wireless on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
There has been a lot of conversation about the XO, the mesh network and connecting to wireless networks - developed countries are particularly interested because of all the existing infrastructure in place. In NYC, all public school classrooms have a Cisco wireless router broadcasting a wireless connection to their network (a hidden - maybe even [...]
Posted in News, learning, olpc, tagged Changing Education, olpc, OLPC Intel Dell on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re back from Cambridge, MA and have had a couple days to reflect on the OLPC workshops. Dr. Nicholas Negroponte joined us on the last day and took some questions. The most interesting, and in a way, most promising aspect of OLPC and their mission is their ability to be honest and open about all [...]
Posted in 1, News, learning, olpc, tagged OLPC workshop on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
We just finished day two of a four-day workshop series at the OLPC offices in Cambridge, MA. There are 30 or so participants representing all sides of the education world - both literally and functionally. So far, the sharing of ideas and philosophies has been wonderful and the missions and plans we all have is [...]
Posted in News, olpc, tagged Asus Eee PC, Asus Eee vs OLPC, Intel Classmate on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Allow me a non-olpc related diversion - the Asus Eee PC. It isn’t entirely unrelated; after-all these are both extremely cheap, portable, linux-based laptops targeting the education market. Like Intel’s Classmate, the Asus Eee PC is a $350 micro-laptop - and I will admit, is very impressive out of the box. I [...]
Posted in olpc, tagged OLPC laptop cart model; OLPC google apps on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
First off, happy new year! One thing I was worried about over the break was how the OLPC is going to work in a laptop cart environment (yes, my life is such that I worry about laptop carts on vacation). The device is a user-centric design and would work well in a 1:1 environment. However, a [...]
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