Here’s a nice independent overview of the history and status of the One Laptop Per Child program, developed by the editors at OLPC News. Main conclusion: that the influence of the OLPC project has outpaced its impact. Though far fewer laptops have been sold by this date than planned, the project has helped give impetus [...]
Archive for March, 2009
OLPC Overview
Posted in general on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cost-Effectiveness Ratio and School Laptop Programs
Posted in general on March 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In an important article in the current issue of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Douglas Harris makes the common-sense argument that, in order to understand the potential value of educational interventions, we need consider not only their effect sizes, but more importantly their “cost-effectiveness ratio” (CER), i.e., how much effect size in desired outcomes is [...]
Barack Obama on education
Posted in general on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a link to today’s full speech.
The rise of social networking
Posted in general on March 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Did you know that, according to Nielsen, people now spend more time on “Member Communities” (defined as social networking sites and blogging sites) than they spend on email?
txting assoc w superior rding sklls
Posted in general on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A study in Britain has found that there is a positive association between how many “textisms” (SMS abbreviations) that 10- 12-year-old students use and children’s word reading, vocabulary, and phonological awareness measures. Apparently it takes a lot of exposure to print to able to learn or invent textisms.
The new keyboardless Mac?
Posted in general on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via The Onion and Youtube.
