If One Laptop per Child were started today, how JavaScript-y would it be?
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If OLPC restarts today it skips bespoke hardware and custom OS and ships browser-first lessons, a web-based Sugarizer port of activities, offline Intel NUC servers stocked with Khan Academy via Learning Equality, and tablet repairs in-country. Uruguay already bought ~1M XOs; Turtle Art, Etoys, Scratch and Pippy move to HTML/JS or get rewritten. Expect numbers: one-country deployments, solar-powered servers, and tradeoffs — JavaScript portability versus fragmentation and machine-learning tools that might auto-generate teaching code.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:13WHAT HAPPENED TO OLPC?
- 2:01A LAPTOP FOR KIDS?
- 2:55IS IT COST-EFFECTIVE?
- 6:59HARDWARE
- 7:21MESH NETWORK
- 8:03OPERATING SYSTEM
- 9:19THE MIT VISION
- 10:39THE ACTUAL USERS
- 11:40SOFTWARE
- 13:11THE 5 PRINCIPLES VS. LABS
- 14:14SCALING UP AND DOWN
- 15:06THE ACTUAL INTERNET
- 15:33REALIGNMENT
- 17:53PATHS TO CODING
- 20:48OLPC CODING SOLUTIONS
- 21:46BLOCKS, NOT JUST FOR TURTLES
- 23:02SCRATCH AND GOOGLE MAKING INTERESTING MOVES
- 23:43SWIFT PLAYGROUNDS
- 24:20ROBOTS AND PHYSICAL THINGS
- 26:08RISK FACTORS
- 27:09MACHINE LEARNING
- 27:51EDU METRICS AND SENSORS
- 28:48A NEW LANDSCAPE
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