Children's low cost laptop fund data

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General Questions

  • What evidence is there that providing every child with a laptop is beneficial?
  • What benefit do the children derive from owning/having one?
  • Won't the laptops get broken a lot?
  • Can we really get laptops that will be useful and fully functional for under $400?
    • In addition to the price of the laptop, what are the other costs?
  • How are the teachers going to learn how to use this new tool?
  • What infrastructure is required to support every child having a laptop?
  • How will purchasing laptops help increase student test scores?

Specific OLPC/XO questions

  • Why Linux?
  • What specific infrastructure does the XO need?
  • Won't the XO get broken a lot?
  • How will teachers learn the XO?
  • What other costs(non infrastructure and not included with the original hardware costs) should we expect?

Data Sheets

Cost

Issues:this would try to be a per class cost so unit price times 25 or so

  • unit price
  • price to make unit functional(aka +$150 for Microsoft Word on a normal windows install)
  • Infrastructure costs
  • Training costs

Other non Monetary data

Issues: This is the software/hardware sort of stuff

  • OS
  • Word processor
  • Web Browser
  • Picture editor
  • IDE
  • is training included with laptop purchase

Hardware

  • wifi
  • HDD capacity
  • RAM
  • processor

Other Reading

olpc news about teachermate