{"id":272,"date":"2005-08-01T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2005-08-01T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T17:00:40","slug":"eslates_in_kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/eslates_in_kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"e-slates in kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot program in Kenya gives 54 fifth grade students pocket PCs in lieu of textbooks (BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/click_online\/4727617.stm\">story<\/a>). Known in the school as &#8220;e-slates,&#8221; the handheld computers run on open source software and contain digitized print textbooks, but could eventually support multiple media materials. The whole classroom is connected through a wireless network, which allows texts to be updated seamelessly, and may ultimately enable homework assignments to be passed between teacher and pupil without a single sheet of paper. But that will depend on a reliable network connection and a steady supply of electricity, neither of which are a given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot program in Kenya gives 54 fifth grade students pocket PCs in lieu of textbooks (BBC story). Known in the school as &#8220;e-slates,&#8221; the handheld computers run on open source software and contain digitized print textbooks, but could eventually support multiple media materials. The whole classroom is connected through a wireless network, which allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[2381],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-education-ebook-technology-handheld-pocketpc-pda-africa-kenya-school-classroom-textbook-edublog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}