Children's low cost laptop fund data
Contents
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
