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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

Edsurge

Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. At the time, a typical laptop cost well over $1,000. That never quite came to fruition, but almost 3 million is still a lot of laptops out there.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop. You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Donors Choose YOU - Top 10 Tips to Fund Your Project

EdTechTeam

In 2006 while waiting on a very late bus to pick up my first graders, my principal stopped by my room to tell me about this new website she had heard about from some admin colleagues. iPads, laptops, robotics, Hokki Stools, books, construction paper, art easels, rugs, tables, shelving, Crayolas of every kind… the list could go on and on.

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2020 Vision (revisited)

Dangerously Irrelevant

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. Google buys Logitech and a whole host of media companies and university lectures. AHS students each have their own laptop and routinely engage in tele-learning with 10 sister schools all around the world.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

VLACS is headquartered in a former high school in Exeter, New Hampshire — a brick edifice used for a century until the town opened a new high school in 2006. Kent opened her laptop to show the dashboard that tracks her students. Relationships Matter. Shorthanded as DBAs, these discussions are held for each competency.