I thought that WSG'ers might be interested in this view of the One
Laptop per Child project. Liddy Nevile was at the launch last week,
and will be working on a project in Bangledesh next year, I think.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Liddy Nevile
Date: 21 November 2005 10:56:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Subject: Re: [LINK] One Laptop per Child
One important way of thinking about the 'green machine' is as a book.
They will be able to provide kids with lots of stuff to read and it is
expected that in some cases that will be all they will need to do to
be very useful in places where textbooks are not available.
It might also please some Linkers to know that by avoiding greedy
operating systems, the number of winds per hour is being reduced.
There is also a new approach to screens. I think that a lot of people
will benefit from just these two developments.
I personally look forward to children, in Australia and elsewhere,
getting computers that are not business machines but rather designed
for kids ... and adults can explore the kind of software likely to be
available by trying Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/), a modern
'SmallTalk' language developed by Alan Kay and his colleagues and and
Scratch (http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/scratch-proposal.pdf),
a new language being developed by Mitchel Resnick and his colleagues
building on Squeak.
Liddy
******************************************************
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
for some hints on posting to the list & getting help
******************************************************
