Dial M for Learning: mLearning ideas » News http://dialmlearning.edublogs.org A Blog for those at the Dial M for Learning workshop and anyone who wants to share ideas about mLearning Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 India rejects the $100 Laptop but Nigeria says yes http://dialmlearning.edublogs.org/2006/07/31/india-rejects-the-100-laptop-but-nigeria-says-yes/ http://dialmlearning.edublogs.org/2006/07/31/india-rejects-the-100-laptop-but-nigeria-says-yes/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:46:19 +0000 Carol Daunt http://dialmlearning.edublogs.org/2006/07/31/india-rejects-the-100-laptop-but-nigeria-says-yes/ 100_dollar_laptop_prototypes.jpgYou’ve no doubt heard of the $100 laptops first outlined by Nicholas Negroponte earlier this year. They’re designed for, and only available to, children in the developing world and available in fetching orange and yellow, or shades of blue and green.

The Register reports that India has decided not to buy into the project. The Indian Ministry of Education dismissed the laptop as “pedagogically suspect”.

However, according to the Vanguard, Nigeria has ordered 1 million!

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