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.
[...] MIT: One Laptop Per Child, by Daisy Pignetti [...]
[...] 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. [...]
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…
Lifelong Kindergarten is a very cool idea. We need things to help children learn and be more creative.
also check msi wind pc, it will be rival to MIT soon