OLPC XO-1 Essays

  • One Laptop per Child cannot promise a Better Future

    1320 Words  | 3 Pages

    The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and director of MIT Media Laboratory. The OLPC mission aims to “empower the world’s poorest children through education” by providing them with “rugged, low-cost, low-power and connected” laptops (About the project mission, n.d.). OLPC claims that the 200-dollar XO computer is designed for “collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning” (About the project mission, n.d.). They follow five principles wherever

  • Technology And Technology In The Village Effect By Susan Pinker

    1301 Words  | 3 Pages

    In a culture where families tend to leave their children alone with technological devices, screen time is bound to play a role in a child’s happiness, psychological development, and academic progress. In The Village Effect, Susan Pinker (2014) discusses the research that has been done in regards to technology and the potential consequences it has on our overall well-being. Pinker (2014) asserts that, while many have made attempts - using technology - to close the academic achievement gap between

  • What´s Mobile Health?

    1730 Words  | 4 Pages

    mHealth which stands for Mobile Health, is a term used for practicing public health and medicine using mobile technologies. The health sector in the emerging markets faces many challenges like high disease prevalence, low number of health care workers and limited financial resources. Even though the remote areas of the emerging markets lack in modern technologies like internet the Mobile Technology has been an exception. Mobile Phones have managed to reach even the remote areas with people having