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Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools

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Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of constructionist learning, and the ClassmatePC, designed by Intel to fit within and improve traditional education. We report on a series of field studies in Mexican elementary schools that deployed the XO or ClassmatePC. Although both devices are promoted as valuable for improving education in developing countries, our studies suggest that creating the social and technical infrastructures needed to sustain school laptop use is far more complex than what technology designers assume. Author Keywords Low-cost laptops, infrastructures, developing countries, OLPC, XO, ClassmatePC, education, Mexico, ICT4D ACM Classification Keywords
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N
Added 25 Aug 2011
Updated 25 Aug 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where CHI
Authors Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, Nithya Sambasivan
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