Business Driven Technology
Business Driven Technology
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781259567322
Author: Paige Baltzan Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 5MBD

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Negroponte’s $100 laptop:

Nicholas Negroponte is an MIT professor who wrote a column evangelizing the transformative power of technology and cofounded OLPC (One Laptop per Child) which is a non-profit initiative established with the goal of transforming education for children around the world by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices.

Competitive advantages of NLPC $100 laptop:

The competitive advantages that children could get from NLPC $100 laptop are:

  • It facilitated schoolwork for students and teachers, and consequently time saving.
  • Increased access to current, high-quality information.
  • Greater student motivation
  • Improved student attentiveness due to increased interaction between students and between students and their teacher.
  • Breakdown of the barriers between the school and society and more opportunities for the future.
  • Active, interactive and meaningful learning with multimedia support.

Issues generated from NLPC $100 laptop:

Some of the issues and challenges that are generated from NLPC $100 laptop are:

  • Some of the technical challenges appeared to be more problematic which were related to the intensive use of information and communication technologies for pedagogical purposes.

    For example, some websites and pedagogical activities that were suitable for use were not very appealing or stimulating for the students.

  • It can become a source of distraction rather than a tool to encourage learning...

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