The One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to over see the creation of an affordable educational device in the developing world to be in use. Its aim is “To provide educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-power, low-cost connected laptop with software and content designed for joyful, collaborative and self-empowered learning.” Its current focus is on the construction, development and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.
They have five products: (1) the XO laptop; (2) an active antennas; (3) a multi-battery charger; (4) a school server and (5) a solar-powered WiFi repeater.
The One Laptop per Child association develops a low-cost laptop i.e the “XO Laptop” to revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. The OLPC XO is designed with students in mind: The keyboard (wrapped in a rubberized membrane) is built for food-encrusted and tiny fingers. And once you open the device you’ll find yourself faced with number of unfamiliar buttons which you’ll largely have to figure out through and error trial. The heavily-modded Fedora Linux core provides an entirely new way of doing things, deep-sixing any notions you might have about desktops, icons, and even file management. Kids in a classroom setting will probably grasp this quickly but grown-ups will wrestle with OLPC’s software as much as they do its hardware.
Sugar is free software, is the desktop environment originally developed for the One Laptop per Child computer/education project. Sugar is used on the OLPC XO-1 laptop computer. Like more traditional desktop environments, it is different as it does not use a “desktop” metaphor and only focuses on a single task at a time. It is written in interpreted Python programming language, whereas other environments are written in a compiled language such as C. Sugar is also called as the OLPC Python Environment.
Developers those who are interested in working on the Sugar interface or writing activities can have a development platform without using an XO laptop.
So, we have found that OLPC has generated a great deal of interest in Communication Technologies and the Information for Development in education. Their goal is to offer children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
The One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to over see the creation of an affordable educational device in the developing world to be in use. Its aim is “To provide educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-power, low-cost connected laptop with software and content designed for joyful, collaborative and self-empowered learning.” Its current focus is on the construction, development and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.
They have five products: (1) the XO laptop; (2) an active antennas; (3) a multi-battery charger; (4) a school server and (5) a solar-powered WiFi repeater.
The One Laptop per Child association develops a low-cost laptop i.e the “XO Laptop” to revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. The OLPC XO is designed with students in mind: The keyboard (wrapped in a rubberized membrane) is built for food-encrusted and tiny fingers. And once you open the device you’ll find yourself faced with number of unfamiliar buttons which you’ll largely have to figure out through and error trial. The heavily-modded Fedora Linux core provides an entirely new way of doing things, deep-sixing any notions you might have about desktops, icons, and even file management. Kids in a classroom setting will probably grasp this quickly but grown-ups will wrestle with OLPC’s software as much as they do its hardware.
Sugar is free software, is the desktop environment originally developed for the One Laptop per Child computer/education project. Sugar is used on the OLPC XO-1 laptop computer. Like more traditional desktop environments, it is different as it does not use a “desktop” metaphor and only focuses on a single task at a time. It is written in interpreted Python programming language, whereas other environments are written in a compiled language such as C. Sugar is also called as the OLPC Python Environment.
Developers those who are interested in working on the Sugar interface or writing activities can have a development platform without using an XO laptop.
So, we have found that OLPC has generated a great deal of interest in Communication Technologies and the Information for Development in education. Their goal is to offer children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
