[ubuntu-my] Fwd: Macedonia rolls out 53, 000 Classmate PCs with Ubuntu

[Mohamad Imran]

Kalau Classmate PC kat Terenganu tu diubuh gnu/linux kan bagus. Dah
jimat duit kerajaan.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel
<linuxmalaysia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Prakash Advani <prakash at canonical.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:30 PM
> Subject: Macedonia rolls out 53,000 Classmate PCs with Ubuntu
> To:
>
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> Macedonia rolls out 53,000 Classmate PCs
>
> Christopher Dawson
>
> October 6, 2009
>
> ZDNet Education
>
>
>
> The government of Macedonia announced today that it was the first
> Balkan country to
>
> deploy a major 1:1 computing effort, deploying 53,000 Classmate PCs to
> all of the
>
> country’s first through third graders. Perhaps just as importantly,
> the program also
>
> provides all 22,000 teachers in grades 1-8 with an Asus Eee PC and extensive
>
> professional development on the use of 1:1 resources in the classroom.
>
> While the Macedonia government is supplying the hardware, according to the
>
> company’s press release,
>
>
>
> Intel’s contribution will include training 1,000 teachers to integrate
> technology into the
>
> curriculum, localizing and licensing teacher training materials,
> providing teacher
>
> guides, and qualifying master trainers for scaling the program
> throughout Macedonia
>
> As with other Intel Classmate programs, local service providers are
> rolling out the
>
> laptops (this program is using their clamshell design for cost-effectiveness and
>
> ruggedness). These Classmates are actually being produced in Serbia by ComTrade,
>
> which began selling its Minibook/Coolbook-branded Classmates in April.
>
> According to Intel Spokesperson, Agnes Kwan, “Intel will also support
> the government
>
> in training teachers and providing licensing to the maths & science
> online curriculum
>
> skoool.com” (a partnership between Intel and SMART Technologies).
>
>
>
> As early as 2007, Macedonia was piloting innovative technologies in
> schools when they
>
> rolled out 180,000 Edubuntu desktops (at the time, “the largest ‘pure’ Edubuntu
>
> deployment” ever undertaken). Along these lines, all of the new
> Classmates will be
>
> loaded with Ubuntu, after the Edubuntu and other successful
> Linux-based pilots in the
>
> country.
>
> "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
>  --  Abraham Lincoln
>
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