{"id":291,"date":"2005-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=291"},"modified":"2005-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"andy-carvins-waste-of-bandwidth-creating-the-100-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/andy-carvins-waste-of-bandwidth-creating-the-100-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Carvin&#8217;s Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andycarvin.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/creating_the_10.html\" title=\"Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop\">Andy Carvin&#8217;s Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; 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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This might link to the discussions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sett\/index.asp\" title=\"Home page of the SETT website\">SETT<\/a>  about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sett\/seminarsandkeynotes\/seminars\/ssdninventingourownictfuture.asp\" title=\"SSDN - Inventing Our Own ICT Future (2005 SETT Seminar)\">SSDN <\/a>. 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 \u00a3100 or even \u00a3200 laptop initiative for children.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Scottish+Learning+Festival\">Scottish Learning Festival<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Andy+Carvin\">Andy+Carvin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Digital+Divide\">Digital Divide<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Carvin&#8217;s Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop &#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4H","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}