{"id":139,"date":"2005-04-14T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2005-04-14T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T08:10:37","slug":"ebooks_in_education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/ebooks_in_education\/","title":{"rendered":"ebooks in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"story.100.dollar.laptop.ap.jpg\"  src=\"\/blog\/archives\/story.100.dollar.laptop.ap.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" align=\"right\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\" height=\"168\" align=\"right\"> if:book will be spending the day at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openebook.org\/\">Open eBook Forum<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openebook.org\/education\/\">eBooks in Education Conference<\/a> at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York.<br \/>\nIn the spirit of the conference, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/ptech\/04\/04\/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap\/index.html\">AP article<\/a> from last week that gives a good overview of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~nicholas\/\">Nicholas Negroponte<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.media.mit.edu\/\">$100 laptop project<\/a> for developing countries.<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Details are still being worked out, but here&#8217;s the MIT team&#8217;s current recipe: Put the laptop on a software diet; use the freely distributed Linux operating system; design a battery capable of being recharged with a hand crank; and use newly developed &#8216;electronic ink&#8217; or a novel rear-projected image display with a 12-inch screen. Then, give it Wi-Fi access, and add USB ports to hook up peripheral devices. Most importantly, take profits, sales costs and marketing expenses out of the picture.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if:book will be spending the day at the Open eBook Forum&#8216;s eBooks in Education Conference at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York. In the spirit of the conference, here&#8217;s an AP article from last week that gives a good overview of Nicholas Negroponte&#8216;s $100 laptop project for developing countries. &#8220;Details are still being worked out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,561,1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences_and_excursions","category-education","category-the-ideal-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}