The One Laptop Per Child organization has announced it is launching an internship program to send graduate and undergraduate students to Africa to help out with creating educational opportunities for children in African nations. Dubbed OLPCorps, the program will outfit up to 100 student teams with 100 OLPC XO laptops and up to $10,000 to cover operating expenses, and the teams will spend nine weeks in an African nation working directly with community and education partners to integrate the XO laptops into children’s primary education.
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BETT Showcases Education Technology
BETT is the annual education technology trade show, held in London, and the 2009 version got underway Wednesday, running until Saturday. The idea is to showcase how technology will work with education in the future.
The opening address came from Schools Minister Jim Knight, who repeated plans to give children from low income families a free computer and broadband access, and the BBC reports that Becta, the government agency responsible for technology and learning, is using the show to launch its schools technology charter, setting out its vision for effective use of technology in education.
Apple Launches $899 iMac for Schools
Years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised to do away with cathode ray tube (CRT) displays across Apple’s product line in favor of flat screen LCDS…and the company succeeded for a few months when it rolled out its first flat-screen iMacs in 2002. But then came the eMac, a CRT-based all-in-one unit aimed specifically for the education market where economic realities didn’t make flat-screen systems practical.
Since then, LCD sizes have increased and costs have dropped, and today Apple phased out the eMac in favor of a flat-panel iMac aimed at the education market, featuring with a 17-inch screen, a 1.83 GHz Core Duo processor, and price tags starting at $899.


