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The FIZZBOOK has been made for kids aged six to 14 for the UK education
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by SOLARLIFE | August 30, 2008 at 02:33 pm
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The FIZZBOOK has been made for kids aged six to 14 for the UK education
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The competition for the 100 $ 1Laptop per child is here for Great Britain. £ 199 the laptop is designed for children's interacting classrooms accross the UK. First time we see a developing world product transfer to the old world, historic moment.
But, according to its makers Liverpool-based Zoostorm Computers, it is the advancement in connectivity between teacher and pupil that makes it the perfect 21st century educational tool.
As well as hooking up to interactive whiteboards in class, it can be programmed with homework and software linked to the Government's Key Stage standards.
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at 14:39 on August 30th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
It was only a matter of time before they started making them especially for children...
at 14:47 on August 30th, 2008
Thanks for Flag amyjudd, I selected culture as channel, because the interacting classroom with the UK fizzbook laptop, is the "social internet", a little bit like our commenting on NP; a new culture of group learning.
at 15:13 on August 30th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I have not yet understood how a Lap Top can run a over $1000.00 today?
However the $100.00 does raise the same question, how can it be so cheap?
The $100.00 project ended up costing $300.00 per lap top.
at 02:09 on August 31st, 2008
Thanks Paschen for Flag "FIZZBOOK copy of $100 Laptop" your comment "$100.00 does raise the same question, how can it be so cheap?..now $300".
The $100 Laptop was started by the MIT with contributions of $2million to pay by partner. In principle the first $100 Laptop from Amstrad a flop, but running on 4AA batteries only with no backlight LCD display and no-windows operating system. The Windows system today is a crook updated over years (upscaling problem) I write you this message with XP, but will change to LINUX for small scale operating system. Same true for $100 Laptop running on Linux (to my opinion can never run on XP, memory processor question) Your second question, why now $200/300? MIT not being a computer manufacturer, but a University Lab needs upfront contracts to be signed for 2-3 million laptops / country to keep the price. The African countries did not underwrite for these amounts. P.S. your Waldorf school comment to school network computeres (like our commenting system at NP) are there any statements to find, would be interesting; Thanks
at 04:12 on August 31st, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:19 on August 31st, 2008
Thanks Zichi, Rhonda, GhOs7 for Flag" Fizzbook, copy of $100 laptop", the more I think, I would like to have one, would be sufficent for wrting and email.