Can Kindle inspire educational technology?
As Amazon.com discreetly introduced a price cut of 10pc to its Kindle eBook reader from US$400 to US$360, it may be that this gadget is aiming at the wrong end of the market with high-end consumer electronics and should be looking to education. OLPC (One Laptop per Child) founder Nicholas Negroponte unveiled a brand new Children’s Laptop, in fact it was not a laptop at all but a low cost eBook reader targeted at children’s education in developing economies. This eBook, unlike the Amazon Kindle, is a touch-sensitive, full-color dual screen which will be priced at US$75, in comparison to Kindle’s US$360. — Silicon Republic Gerri Sinclair: Time to embrace your avatar Gerri Sinclair is a true Renaissance woman. In fact, she was a Renaissance drama scholar before turning her mind to computers, entrepreneurship, and thought leadership about on-line avatars in virtual worlds. Having sold her Internet company to Microsoft Corp., Ms. Sinclair has been a company director, government adviser, and
