Category: xo laptop

  • March OLPC Meeting Houston (Notes)

    Hi, I wanted to provide information about the recent meeting of the Houston OLPC meeting, which featured Samuel Klein, the director of community content.   I don’t know how much of these nuggets of information was off-the-cuff and how much is official; use your own judgment. After the meeting, we met at Beck’s Prime for Hamburgers.…

  • Announcement: A new Monthly Houston OLPC club for kids

    Update Jan 3: First Meeting will be Saturday Jan 19 at Montrose Library 3:00 PM.  (Read more details and RSVP here) Update December 19: See the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Houston-laptops-for-children/ mailing list and the Houston OLPC user forum Update: I wrote an article for OLPCNews about my user group for XO laptop owners. Big news: I have bought…

  • Designing for Children: The Constructivist Approach

    In response to the announcement that SimCity will be ported to the One Laptop per Child platform, Alan Kay writes a long piece wondering whether Sim City is truly an example of constructivist learning. He talks about designing software environments for children and at the end concludes that Sim City might not be the best…