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Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop

… a presentation from Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab. Negroponte discussed his $100 laptop initiative, in which he is working to produce a low-cost laptop for mass distribution in k-12 schools in the developing world

This might link to the discussions at SETT about the SSDN . The problem with having all the wonderful digital resources for learners seem to be the uneven distribution. In Glasgow with a fairly low percentage of households with internet connectivity maybe we need a £100 or even £200 laptop initiative for children.

This also links into the digital native argument somewhere, some disadvantaged children will not grow up using the technology without thinking about it, putting them at an educational disadvantage compared to their better off peers in the city.

tags: Scottish Learning Festival Andy+Carvin Digital Divide

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Before SETT I though it was just me, Ewan and David.

But there seems to be a lot more, David has posted about Exc-el weblogs in East Lothian.

In the podcasting round table at SETT, we met someone with several (still can’t find my notes).

It would be nice to find some more or them all.

Sandaig’s main blog is listed at Scottish Blogs but I don’t see any other education blogs there.

Maybe we could start a Scottish Education Blog list somewhere.

I’ve started tagging Scottish Educational Blogs with scot-edu-blog at del.icio.us/tag/scot-edu-blog. If you are a del.icio.us using Scots Educational blogger or know one please tag it.

If you can think of a better tag than scot-edu-blog, please let me know in a comment.

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I took part in the organised by Ewan at the table was Andy Carvin!

The session seemed to last about 30 seconds. Andy had an Olympus voice recorder that looked good, not too expensive and easy for children to use.

Andy has already uploaded a podcast and the powerpoint of the presentation he gave earlier. I guess this is the first real adult digital native I’ve talked to rather than read on the web. Pretty much his whole holiday in Scotland is on his blog, along with a fair bit of content from I wonder if Ewan recorded the round table as there was a huge mike on the table, if so I hope he will edit out anything I said.

Ewan turns out to be a digital native too programming a Spectrum from the age of six.

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Andy Carvin was talking about blogs, podcasting Flickr etc at SETT ().

Showed how fast things turn up at http://www.technorati.com/. I wonder if this will;-)

Andy coveredthe history of online community in about 45 minutes, and didn’t leave many buzzwords unturned.

Great intro, I wish I had stepped up and asked a question or two.

Most exciting site he showed us http://acroughcuts.com/.

…podcasting round table coming up very shortly….

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As mentioned on the Sandaig News page we have finished a new podcast for Radio Sandaig. I have learnt a lot about podcasting, audacity and managing the creation. I’ve been especially impressed by the attitude and work of the children. As soon as we finished the show they are bursting with ideas for a new one for October, I am going to make a big effort to record more of the process here.

One thing that struck me was how little equipment you need for creating a podcast. A recorder of some sort and a computer.