On 29.06.2007, at 21:25, Marcus Denker wrote:

One Etoy Per Child on the $100 Laptop

When: 06.07.2007

The talk starts at 17:15.

Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001

Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/

Speaker

Dr. Bert Freudenberg

Agenda

1 hour Talk and Q/A

Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

Abstract

Most of the two billion children in developing countries have unsufficient access to education. The non-profit "One Laptop per Child" project is working on a learning machine, a cheap, networked computer with software to support "learning to learn" for every child. One of its software components is "Etoys", a tile-based authoring environment written on top of Squeak. The talk will present the OLPC project, its current state of development in general and the progress on Etoys in particular.

Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- denker@iam.unibe.ch http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker