{"id":933,"date":"2008-01-01T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2013-07-12T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T10:47:09","slug":"mits-one-laptop-per-child-the-xo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/mits-one-laptop-per-child-the-xo-933","title":{"rendered":"MIT&#8217;s One Laptop Per Child - the XO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great concept - the US$100 laptop designed for kids in Third World countries.<\/p>\n<p>It does not rely on the Internet for connectivity. Rather, it can detect other nearby laptops and students can communicate with them using WiFi.<\/p>\n<p>There are several clever built-in learning applications (like a measuring application and various creativity apps including collaborative art and music activities). They can even do video-conferencing. It is all open source, hence the low cost.<\/p>\n<p>Here's an overview of the device:<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PM33EEAszHA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now <b>this<\/b> is the kind of thing that we should be spending our defense budgets on...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XO Laptop is MIT's $100 connected device for students in the Third World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}