One Laptop Per Child

They are making kids grow up far to fast. And they are making kids miss their childhood years

Wow, that is amazing. Great to know that the children of tomorrow (our future) is going to be smarter and brighter than the ones before. Think of all those trees that they get to save as well LOL...but this plan does sound great and I hope that the US will have something similar to that. I hate carrying heavy books home and to school and it hurt my back because those books were heavy as heck...but this is great now all they to do is carry one thing the light laptop........

yeah thats can be possible think.so far laptop more cheap n more..

very ineresting idea. I am guessing this is for only children out of the Uninted states right? I still am not sure what age I will get my son into the internet involvement. Its so addicting he's 3 yrs now. He loves his blues clues and other dvds and books. I started getting to computers when I was in high school. but then I guess I wasn't taught anything about computers before this time. yeah we had them in elementary and middle school but I guess I didn't know enough to want one at the time. there a great tool for older teens, but I am not sure if kids should get addicted to them.

I have been following the OLPC project for a while now! Those "rabbit ears" actually enable the laptop to have a 3x greater wireless range than most laptops on the market! The LCD is a new technology: it can go from b/w to color, and the resolutions can change -- as a result, it carries the only LCD that can be read in full sun! It runs with Linux (except for a few Windows versions in testing), which means kids will have less chance to catch viruses and spyware; and parents won't have to worry about kids trying to break the bank getting them to purchase games, because so many games are free with Linux. My kids and I actually prefer the free linux games to the expensive Windows games on the market! It is solid state, and as a result you don't have to worry so much about dropping it (the disk similar to a usb thumbdrive - no moving parts), and it can be expanded with usb drives if desired. There is no cdrom for the kids to stick sandwiches into and destroy, and if they spill liquid on the keyboard it is moisture-resistant. I WANT ONE for ME, not just my kid! The technology is amazing in these machines, and they cost less than $200! Eventually they will drop to $100 (the target price). Imagine you are at home and the power goes out. You can use the hand crank to fire it up, and then pull up an ebook and spend the evening reading The Wizard of Oz to your kids, or better yet your kids can read stories to you. No books to dust, they can open another program to take notes on... Have their schoolbooks on it and then no heavy backpacks! And the batteries last for several hours, putting the typical laptop charge time of an hour and a half to shame! I think I read somewhere that after a full charge they can last 5 hours! Teachers could download a copy of whatever book they want their students to read into the laptops -- think of the trees saved, the money the schools could save in printing costs alone! The potential savings in America alone is astounding -- schools could save at least a couple hundred dollars per student per year just in paper and photocopy expense! That would pay for the laptops the first year, and the kids could use them year after year! Sorry, but I am excited over this project, and hope that Negroponte does well with it! Cheers, Lynda

It will be interesting to see how this turns out. It may be possible for all people to have laptops but in this day and age of computers, things get outdated and slower so quickly and by the time everyone needs a laptop, I'm sure it's time to upgrade. Well maybe not, but what about computer problems, I'm sure there are still a large number of people who don't know how to use and fix computers that easily, and now it seems as though this is still a money making scheme in some way. But it's good to give the kids a chance to use the internet, as from personal experience it is a great resource for information as long as it is being used properly.

How is this doing in your country? The Philippines as a program called e-skwela, the main goal is to lessen the digital divide and also to educate out of school youth in the process since the program is community-based. Here's a short description of the program -- The eSkwela Project, a word play on the Filipino equivalent of "school", is a flagship project of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), through its Human Capital Development Group (HCDG), that is envisioned to provide ICT-enhanced educational opportunities for Filipino out-of-school-youth and adults. The initiative responds directly to a national development priority and will bring e-learning opportunities and ICT for learning resources to mobile teachers / instructional managers and out-of-school learners in the Philippines in an exciting, innovative, and locally meaningful way. Under this project, community-based e-Learning Centers or eSkwelas will be established in major centers around the country to conduct ICT-enhanced alternative education programs for out-of-school youth and adults. These centers will serve as venues where out-of-school learners and other community members can learn new skills and competencies, review for the Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Exam of the DepEd-Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS), and/or help prepare OSYs to rejoin the formal school system.

Looks like a nice plan.. Students won't have to carry big back packs.. The way they carry so many books, it looks as if they are going for mountaineering.. But I just hope that these new laptops don't make these kids lazy.. As long as they donot get addicted to computers and internet, I would be happy to support such a cause..

I think it is impossible in my country.it is too difficult,we have about 600,000,000 children in my country.one child one laptop?? I don't think about this.the truth is in the part of my country there maybe many children who can't go to school because their parents can't afford the fee of education. what a nuisance!!maybe the plan can go on in europe or usa or other developed country,but not the developing .