Interesting article! > That's why, he says, One Education designed a device that won't lock children or schools into an operating system – it works with Android, Windows and Linux – and why it concentrates on primary schools, with an emphasis on equality.
This quote seems to reflect their lack of communications strategy. Does this mean we get sugar? What is this "windows" thing all about? > This week, the Australian 15-employee One Education will announce its new generation low-cost computer. A Lego-like modular PC-and-tablet in one that can be assembled by a four-year-old, updated as components reach their end of life, and repaired in the classroom.to last their primary years OMG, they have 15 people!!! Last time I looked on their people page, they had 1 coder/engineer/support and 1 graphical designer + management. Plus the people page only lists 10 people. > On Friday the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) released a new report showing eight in 10 Australian parents think digital skills and computer programming should be taught in primary and secondary schools. Six in 10 parents believe it's important children learn to design, build or program apps. Ironically Android is a much more closed OS. It lacks tools like pippy and turtle. Sugar is MUCH MUCH more aimed towards programming that the arguably consumer OS android. > "[We want] to teach kids they don't just have to be consumers. That they can actually pull things together… and give them the opportunity to update the parts." If changing a battery made everyone a programmer, why is programming a qualification? > But the Australian charity did things a little differently. Where OLPC began to encounter adoption barriers , OLPC Australia began innovating. > > Its offshoot, One Education <https://www.one-education.org/>, created charging stations and repair kits, teacher incentive programs, and training for student IT champions to fix other kids' PCs. LOL, charging stations are much innovative. I'm not sure if this is the quality of Aussie journalism or quality of OLPC AU. Also, I am very sad that the Sugar community has no mention throughout the article. Obviously Sugar played no part in the way the users used OLPC AU's laptops. I'm sure the experience would have been the same with no OS installed. Is that true? Thanks, Sam On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:36 PM Christophe Guéret < [email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > > Have you all seen this ? > http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/meet-rangan-srikhanta-the-former-refugee-who-wants-to-change-the-world-one-laptop-at-a-time-20150221-13l07r.html > I guess the answer is yes but just in case... > > Christophe > > > On 27 February 2015 at 18:14, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I hope this is not affected by Osborne effect [1] >> These looks like 3d software generated images, >> from that to a product ready to ship, there are a long way. >> >> Gonzalo >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Lionel Laské <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> As some of you, I've seen: https://medium.com/road-to-infinity >>> >>> Something that look like to a new XO concept with an Android OS proposed >>> by OLPC Australia. Just my guess. >>> >>> Is someone have more information on this ? >>> Is it related to OLPC Foundation ? >>> Is it related to Sugar ? >>> >>> Please share with us. >>> >>> Lionel. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Gonzalo Odiard >> >> SugarLabs - Software for children learning >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> > > > -- > Onderzoeker > +31(0)6 14576494 > [email protected] > > *Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)* > > DANS bevordert duurzame toegang tot digitale onderzoeksgegevens. Kijk op > www.dans.knaw.nl voor meer informatie. DANS is een instituut van KNAW en > NWO. > > > Let op, per 1 januari hebben we een nieuw adres: > > DANS | Anna van Saksenlaan 51 | 2593 HW Den Haag | Postbus 93067 | 2509 AB > Den Haag | +31 70 349 44 50 | [email protected] <[email protected]> | > www.dans.knaw.nl > > > *Let's build a World Wide Semantic Web!* > http://worldwidesemanticweb.org/ > > *e-Humanities Group (KNAW)* > [image: eHumanities] <http://www.ehumanities.nl/> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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