Category Archives: Development

Still *trying* to have fun with the OLPC

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

My daughter (9 yrs) has been playing around with the OLPC laptop for about a week now. Her progress has been fairly predictable. The computer really is very easy to figure out. She’s especially drawn to the mutlimedia applications that … Continue reading →

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Robot teachers in S. Korea

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

This is quite interesting. S. Koreans are developing “robot teachers” to function as teaching assistants in public schools. Apparently they are working fairly well. A recent project showed that elementary school students working with these robots in an english class … Continue reading →

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Why are we slow to adopt technology for education?

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Tryggvi Thayer

For the past year, I’ve been researching the integration of technology in education, and most recently the use of cell phones, as I mentioned in a recent post. What I have seen is that the use of communication technology in … Continue reading →

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Opening Up Education – Free collection of excellent articles

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Tryggvi Thayer

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge is a timely and relevant collection of articles about the need to, and ways to, integrate formal and informal learning. The book has been … Continue reading →

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“Gold farming” and ICT4D

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Tryggvi Thayer

Salon (via Boing Boing) had an article about Richard Heeks’ interesting economic and developmental analysis of so-called “gold farming”, titled “Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on “Gold Farming”: Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online … Continue reading →

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Recommendations from whom?

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Tryggvi Thayer

Last summer, Craig R. Barrett, chairman of UN GAID and chairman of the board of Intel Corp., issued a list of “Recommendations from the UN GAID Chairman”. A couple of the recommendations are worthy of a slightly raised eyebrow, and … Continue reading →

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