MIT: One Laptop Per Child Saturday, Jul 21 2007
Yesterday we had the honor of visiting the MIT Media Lab. I’m not really a Second Life person [I think many of you know I live by the slogan “I don’t play games”], so I was thrilled when we were given the option to checkout their Lifelong Kindergarten lab and then head over to the One Laptop Per Child office.
While we are a group of 30+ PhD students from all over the world, check out the difficulty we had opening up the machine! And for a more detailed description of the project, check out this CBS video.
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 am
[…] MIT: One Laptop Per Child, by Daisy Pignetti […]
November 21st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
[…] Still, its size and “cute” factor are part of its charm, and it was brilliant for the creators to offer this chance to the public in the US and Canada to own one as well as donating one now that the machine is being mass-produced. It helps, too, that I did fall in love with it when I visited the OLPC offices this summer. […]
November 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
OLPC was a good project, but i think so slow to start, asus has understanding a possible success of them and have launch befor his eee pc 701, less than $299, good quality, design and performance, so we can believe that the olpc will only become a child machine…
March 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Lifelong Kindergarten is a very cool idea. We need things to help children learn and be more creative.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:40 am
also check msi wind pc, it will be rival to MIT soon