You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a low cost laptop available for school-aged curriculum it seems. OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte’s durable, low cost version, is receiving significant competition from well funded large corporations such as Intel, to the point he now is giving it away. What few seem to be pushing for, however, is curriculum to be loaded on these machines.
What good is a computer that merely surfs the Internet? Sure Google and Wikipedia are perfect examples where students can pursue independent study but the lack of structure makes it very difficult to matriculate especially as proscribed by the state.
