[Air-l] Maine OLPC - was - India Rejects One Laptop Per Child

[M.B.Gaved]

Hi Mark

Do you have any references to publications I (and other AoIR'ers) could
download / otherwise access on the Maine "one laptop per child" project?
It would be interesting to read the Maine project expectations and
subsequent experiences as a comparison to the MIT project.

Kind regards
Mark

Mark Gaved
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark/
office +44 1908 654513
mobile +44 7796 266 592
m.b.gaved at open.ac.uk




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Subject: Re: [Air-l] India Rejects One Laptop Per Child

... [snip] ...

Finally, in answer to Jeremy's question about what happened to the 
laptop project in Maine, the answer is it's still going strong.  The 
program was renewed after the first four-year contract (2002-2006) 
for a second four-year contract (2006-2010) for all 7th and 8th grade 
students in the state. There is also a laptop program in Maine at the 
high school level, but it is adopted (and funded) district by 
district and is thus not universal.
Mark
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Mark Warschauer
Associate Professor of Education and Informatics
University of California, Irvine
2001 Berkeley Place
Irvine, CA 92697-5500
tel: (949) 824-2526,  fax: (949) 824-2965
markw at uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw