{"id":292,"date":"2010-09-27T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/?p=292"},"modified":"2010-09-27T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:02:52","slug":"one-laptop-per-child-olpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/2010\/09\/27\/one-laptop-per-child-olpc\/","title":{"rendered":"One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milgate, Gina (2009). \u201cOne Laptop Per Child Initiative and Indigenous Communities\u201d by Gina Milgate. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.acer.edu.au\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&amp;context=resdev\">http:\/\/research.acer.edu.au\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&amp;context=resdev<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is still early to evaluate the educational impact of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative on indigenous peoples around the world. The above article is a positive review of the program in a remote area of Western Australia about 11 months after the laptops were introduced.<\/p>\n<p>While some researchers like Charles Ess (Drury University and leader of the Association of Internet Researchers) has said that the OLPC initiative is &#8220;foundering on issues of culture,\u201d most reviews from host countries and organizations are very positive.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/children\/index.shtml\">http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/children\/index.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Laptop_per_Child\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Laptop_per_Child<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/195240\/un_to_buy_500000_olpc_laptops_for_palestinian_children.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/195240\/un_to_buy_500000_olpc_laptops_for_palestinian_children.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milgate, Gina (2009). \u201cOne Laptop Per Child Initiative and Indigenous Communities\u201d by Gina Milgate. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). http:\/\/research.acer.edu.au\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&amp;context=resdev It is still early to evaluate the educational impact of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative on indigenous peoples around the world. The above article is a positive review of the program in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[3601,48873],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1","tag-educational-technology","tag-worlds-indigenous-peoples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}