OLPC boosts outback education with laptop deployment (fwd link)

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OLPC boosts outback education with laptop deployment
Australia’s Indigenous communities to benefit from new educational tools

Kathryn Edwards 27/05/2009 10:43:00

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia, has launched the first deployments of
laptops to primary school children in the Northern Territory and Western
Australia.

Shepherdson College on Elcho Island, who hosted today’s event, is one of the
first three remote Australian schools to be involved in the program. The other
two schools are Western Australia’s Rawa Community School and Newcastle Waters
in the Northern Territory.

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