Should students be given laptops or e-readers?
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900. http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas? I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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If you have no electricity, how will a laptop help you? (More power intensive?). Sent from my iPhone On 19 May 2013, at 01:48, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote: Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas? I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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I'm quite aware of the Solar argument... Have a look at the manual - on charging... Sent from my iPhone On 19 May 2013, at 01:48, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote: Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas? I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year... As school projects (including colleges) and commercially. http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap... Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges. In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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Just give the kids the devices ... am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them remember - most of their parents have cell phones On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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Why do we have an ambitious program to supply devices to school but opt for Solar rather than an equally ambitious program to distribute electricity to all schools. We are looking at the laptop program in isolation, rather than one with directly related and unrelated components. At some point, we'll find that health and access to food may also impact the laptop program. Again, we are used to coming up with short term solutions for our problems ie 4x4 for bad roads, septic tanks in Mavoko for lack of a sewer system etc. It's time we got down to starting from the bottom. Let's have ambitious programs to fix roads, built sewers, spur business creation and increase in manufacturing etc On 19 May 2013 10:14, "Agosta Liko" <agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Just give the kids the devices ...
am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them
remember - most of their parents have cell phones
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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Whichever the device (laptop or kindle), I think the government should have targeted this to the schools not individual students. A modern computer lab per school is more manageable than one laptop/kindle per child On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Just give the kids the devices ...
am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them
remember - most of their parents have cell phones
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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The challenge of power may be easier to overcome with time. Most of the people in the remote areas are privileged to have "electronic devices" (phones) and they have always found a way of keeping them charged. The main challenge lies in relevance and adequacy of the digital content to be loaded in the laptops. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Amos Ochieng <ochiengamos@gmail.com> wrote:
Whichever the device (laptop or kindle), I think the government should have targeted this to the schools not individual students. A modern computer lab per school is more manageable than one laptop/kindle per child
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Just give the kids the devices ...
am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them
remember - most of their parents have cell phones
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-...
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I think the original OLPC laptop solves all these problem. Remember the radios at some point that had a charging thing where you have a lever that you turn around and after several revolutions you have enough charge to listen to radio for hours? that would IMHO be a way of dealing both with electrical shortages and child obesity.. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:55 PM, steve mutuvi <stevemutuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
The challenge of power may be easier to overcome with time. Most of the people in the remote areas are privileged to have "electronic devices" (phones) and they have always found a way of keeping them charged.
The main challenge lies in relevance and adequacy of the digital content to be loaded in the laptops.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Amos Ochieng <ochiengamos@gmail.com>wrote:
Whichever the device (laptop or kindle), I think the government should have targeted this to the schools not individual students. A modern computer lab per school is more manageable than one laptop/kindle per child
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Just give the kids the devices ...
am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them
remember - most of their parents have cell phones
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900.
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Collins, We need Android devices,with good apps/learning games for children. We also need to make sure we get the latest in battery saving processor technology. Some good Intel stuff is being announced in a few weeks time. Let us avoid getting the "old" rejected stuff being dumped in Africa. On May 21, 2013 7:19 PM, "Areba Collins [ @BrainiacKE ® ]" < arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
I think the original OLPC laptop solves all these problem. Remember the radios at some point that had a charging thing where you have a lever that you turn around and after several revolutions you have enough charge to listen to radio for hours? that would IMHO be a way of dealing both with electrical shortages and child obesity..
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:55 PM, steve mutuvi <stevemutuvi@gmail.com>wrote:
The challenge of power may be easier to overcome with time. Most of the people in the remote areas are privileged to have "electronic devices" (phones) and they have always found a way of keeping them charged.
The main challenge lies in relevance and adequacy of the digital content to be loaded in the laptops.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Amos Ochieng <ochiengamos@gmail.com>wrote:
Whichever the device (laptop or kindle), I think the government should have targeted this to the schools not individual students. A modern computer lab per school is more manageable than one laptop/kindle per child
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Just give the kids the devices ...
am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them
remember - most of their parents have cell phones
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas?
I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can carry > thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is > relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900. > > > http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-... > > _______________________________________________ > isoc mailing list > isoc@orion.my.co.ke > http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > > _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
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Here is a good source of power!! http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewdepaula/2012/11/08/ teens-create-a-way-to-use-urine-as-fuel/ Peter On 21 May 2013 19:59, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:
Collins,
We need Android devices,with good apps/learning games for children.
We also need to make sure we get the latest in battery saving processor technology. Some good Intel stuff is being announced in a few weeks time.
Let us avoid getting the "old" rejected stuff being dumped in Africa. On May 21, 2013 7:19 PM, "Areba Collins [ @BrainiacKE ® ]" < arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
I think the original OLPC laptop solves all these problem. Remember the radios at some point that had a charging thing where you have a lever that you turn around and after several revolutions you have enough charge to listen to radio for hours? that would IMHO be a way of dealing both with electrical shortages and child obesity..
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:55 PM, steve mutuvi <stevemutuvi@gmail.com>wrote:
The challenge of power may be easier to overcome with time. Most of the people in the remote areas are privileged to have "electronic devices" (phones) and they have always found a way of keeping them charged.
The main challenge lies in relevance and adequacy of the digital content to be loaded in the laptops.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Amos Ochieng <ochiengamos@gmail.com>wrote:
Whichever the device (laptop or kindle), I think the government should have targeted this to the schools not individual students. A modern computer lab per school is more manageable than one laptop/kindle per child
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Just give the kids the devices ...
am sure they will find a way to charge them, hack them, use them
remember - most of their parents have cell phones
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
We may start by importing but Kenya has to produce 1 million solar chargers per year...
As school projects (including colleges) and commercially.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-build-a-diy-solar-lap...
Materials can be ordered in bulk by some government department for schools and colleges.
In fact, are many minerals used to create electronic components not available in the region (eg. DRC)? On May 19, 2013 1:53 AM, "Brian Ngure" <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
> Question: how would this help students whose nearest power source > is 30 km or more away? Or are you only thinking of students in urban areas? > > I think it should not be one or the other, but a mixture of both > depending on certain factors, e.g power availability, etc. What say you? > On May 19, 2013 1:14 AM, "Grace Githaiga" <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> Retailing for about Sh4,200 a piece, the Kindle 4 e-reader can >> carry thousands of books, lasts up to two weeks on a single charge and is >> relatively easy to use. The 2G/3G model costs Sh10,900. >> >> >> http://www.nation.co.ke/Tech/Should-students-be-given-laptops-or-e-readers/-... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> isoc mailing list >> isoc@orion.my.co.ke >> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc >> >> > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke > https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > Unsubscribe or change your options at > https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/murigi.muraya%40gmail.... > > > The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder > platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy > and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT > sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. > > KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable > behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and > bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect > privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. >
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participants (10)
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Agosta Liko -
Amos Ochieng -
Areba Collins [ ＠BrainiacKE ® ] -
Brian Ngure -
Dennis Kioko -
Grace Githaiga -
Peter Kenduiywo -
Phares Kariuki -
S.M. Muraya -
steve mutuvi