NECC Day 2 Negroponte

NECC Day 2 Negroponte

Extemporanious notes on the fly while listening in the audiance. You are about th ebecome the victim of no editing, poor typing skills and low lighting. just the bullet points as the prsentation continued.

Steve's General take - He filled in some of the pieces of the vision. Very well done.

Great Open Great Music
Introduction President of ISTE
12K attending
6K in this room
Great tech – Captioned simulcast for hearing impaired
Goal – to improve teaching and learning around the globe
Still a digital divide – good policies can overcome that – ISTE has this as a goal.
The I in ISTE is a commitment to International
Already sweeping Asia Africa
Full and Sustained funding is key
Good teachers, good admin critical
450 dropouts – they were bored, but they live and play in a world that is digital. Give these kids laptops and Internet access and they will stay
Lead the process of next level of NETS
Design & build virtual schools w/ 1 to 1 computing
Cadre of experts to be technology turn around teams

NETS is used in 49 states
WVA top state in tech in schools
E2T2 – in danger make it a priority
To meet NCLB you need standard data and accountability
Leaning and Leading with Technology – ISTE journal


Negroponte
MIT media lab
Wired, Being Digital
One Laptop per Child

Pappert – programming teaches you and makes you think, about thinking
Debugging makes you examine think deeply about what went wrong
30 years later – in third world
Go to remote village, find a school, find that they have cobbled together a set of old computers, they are teaching word and excel. Why? Completely irrelevant
Technology is not about teaching, it is about learning.
Gates against it
Intel against it
You must be doing something right
Education should build a passion for learning
Teaching
50% of world kids live in poverty
2.5 hours of school
You cannot
You need to leverage kids peer to peer
25 years ago kids in Senegal = Kids in Lexington MA
Costa Rice is the poster child of success
India – work on connecting kids connecting two sides of Kashmir
Proved that telecommunications is not the issue.
The problem is the laptop – telecommunications will happen
Cambodia example – nothing except laptops no electricity, laptop is the
Maine – provide laptops 6th & 7th grade
Teaching is different students engaged
Bombarded by questions from kids at night
If the block is the laptop can you make it so low cost that every child in the world will have one
Key is scale
Scale will change corporate strategies
Scale @ 100 million units makes the companies sit up and take notice

Laptops
50% of costs are Sales & marketing, profit
Display = 25%
Windows = 25%
Displays cost $10 per diagonal inch has to go about $1
Bloated software and bloated features
If we skinny it down, make it fast and cheap
500 mhz AMD x86 processor
128 DRAM
512 Flash Mem
Less than 2 watts – means that human power can do it 10 wats adult upper
3 USB
Stereo Sound 2 audio out
WiFi Mesh Network peer to peer the Mesh is how you get the kids to Internet as long as you are within 600 meters of another peer. You
Ruggged
Dual mode display sunlight B&W at
Motherboard is here
A working laptop came in from Egypt but it is in customs – hope it will get out
It has to be opensource
Skinny Linux
Instant On
** Kids do 95% of the maintenance
In Cambodia one failure in three years
They are cherished
They will be tested and crashed
Color code machines refer to them there are 12 of them
Crank is gone from laptop – it is on the AC adapter – too much stress on laptop
All models fold into an ebook format
Rabbit ears allow the mesh network to work
Red is the current – display is

$100 server w/ 300 gig for schools
Keyboards are rubber but complicated
Launch dance between the co
October – sign
December – production
Launching outside US – for sure being global is critical – peer to peer
Brazil
Nigeria
Thailand
Argentina
Why not USA the $300 more for a laptop

Nigeria will be the big test bed because conditions are harsh
The price will float $138 in 2007 components like nickel & cobalt
Promise is to keep features simple
Target is $50 in 2010
Gray market – you don’t see Post Office trucks stolen and sold – no market if you see it then it better be kids or teachers
Economics – there are techniques – peer
Side effects – linux will be on desktop
47 million laptops were sold last year doing 100 million per year will change things
No caps lock key – why?

Working systems are here

http://wiki.laptop.org more info

iste@laptop.org for a developer board 400 units

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