Posted on June 25th, 2008 by xpatasia
I read an interesting post recently about the Open Source Operating System on the XO notebook that Negoroponte wants to put in the hands of the world’s disadvantaged children via the one laptop per child project. This software is called sugar and is apparently now finding favour with more than just the XO laptops. The [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by xpatasia
It is funny how you start thinking things and something about them magically appears!
I was discussing Portable Technology User Policies with Dr Peter Leesinsky, Principal of Korean International School yesterday. In a far ranging conversation we spoke about the need to have staff and students on the same page with regard to the use of [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by xpatasia
I have been meeting with and receiving workshop proposals from more and more teachers lately as a result of my organising this conference. What this has lead me to see is the stark difference between how schools view the use of 21st Century tools for learning. Some schools are right behind the use of Web2.0 tools [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by xpatasia
You know, it is no cliche when I say that I do as much learning in my workshops as the participants do themselves. Proabably the best example of this is the discussions we have about how these teachers in traditional Hong Kong schools make use of digital technologies in their lessons today. I have to [...]
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Posted on January 15th, 2008 by xpatasia
ASUS EeePCs
Originally uploaded by Craig Rodway
This is a pic of the ASUS Eee PC as referred to in the previous entry below.
It is just the sort of thing I was asking for 8 years ago when we started the 1:1 program in Perth. It is a great [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2008 by xpatasia
When I was setting up the laptop programme at my former school in Australia, there was a lot of discussion with many stakeholders about how much access we would give kids to their own laptops. I was really glad that we had a very good System Administrator at that stage who was really keen on [...]
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