Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with my Full Sail EMDT students teaching and learning more about online learning management systems. I’ve been using online tools for teaching and learning for over nine years and tech in my classrooms for over 15-years, so I generally don’t think twice about the role of tech …
Around this time last year I was very excited to receive my OLPC (One Laptop per Child), called the XO-1. Having drunk the Negroponte gatorade I was endlessly frustrated with Dvorak and other tech journalists who kept their criticism of the XO-1 focused on either Negroponte’s eccentricities or the fact that the creators made it …
This morning OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte, unveiled the XO version 2.0 according to Engadget and LaptopMag and it is all about the touch. With a schedule 2010 release date the OX will be a hinged dual touch-screen device almost half the size and volume as the original OX. Not too surprisingly, pundits* who didn’t “get” …
Taco Beach. I’m beginning to think that it might be easier to write on my iPhone than on the. OLPC. One problem is where to wriite my notes. It’d be good if I could find a simple place where I could copy my work in progress and then copy to whatever app I’m using on …
I decided to bring along the OLPC on this trip and try to use it again after previous connection failures (I still haven’t gotten the WPA upgrade to work… ack). The keyboard is a tad too small for true touch typing and a bit mushy too. If I had a kid with the slightest interest …
“If Nicholas Negroponte became Bush’s Secretary of Education, we could all donate One Laptop Per Child Left Behind.” Merlin Mann via twitter How sad is it that I find this hilarious. JBB Music: Buzz Out Loud 628: The second listener co-host show! from the album “Buzz Out Loud from CNET” by Tom Merritt and Molly …
New Sim City Demo:
Western Tech Journalists continually miss the point of the OPLC because 1) it’s not for them, 2) It’s primary purpose is educational, in the Seymour Papert model.
I’ll say it again, Nicholas Negroponte rocks! He was the keynote speaker on the second day of the NECC conference I’m attending here in San Diego. Having heard about the MIT Media Lab for years since my MA from Pepperdine in 2002 and then visiting MIT the past two Novembers, I was aware of this …