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Tonight was our first training event for new members - our co-president Katelyn introduced the enthusiastic compers to a few activities on the XO laptop - Write, Record, and a matching game creator. I think everyone was incredibly excited to be learning how to use the XO laptop and impressed by the laptop’s capabilities.
The compers will be putting their newly-discovered skills to work with our new pilot program at Mission Hill. We’ve partnered with the hugely-successful Mission Hill after-school program at Harvard, and I’m excited to meet the kids and see what they figure out in first ten minutes. I bet they’ll be all over the activities, whereas I was just figuring out how to open a browser…
Photos to come.
xoxo
What Would XO Laptops for All Children Cost? -
by Edward Cherlin:
Including teacher training, internet and electricity costs, the total would come to $165 per child, or $165 billion overall. It is worth noting that this is not $165 billion per year, or anything like that. It is $170 billion installed and done with.
“I got mister Teacher on the screen!”
Photo from “République du Chili”, a school in Haiti where XOs where deployed in June 2008. (via olpc)
I love this photo… I would probably be spinning around the room with excitement, too.
