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Thursday, October 1, 2009

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In this video, MIT Media Lab founder , Nicholas Negroponte, talks about his program "One Laptop Per Child." This program allows students all over the world, even students in impoverished nations and areas, computer and internet access. The program's overall goal is to educate students with computers and allow them a much broader range of education using the Internet. This will allow them to learn computers, along with science, math, history, language arts etc. Each laptop sells for approximately $100 each.
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