One Laptop Per Child - Ambitious and Attainable goal.

Folks, please consider the ergonomics, health and safety of the children when implementing this goal.

Repetitive Strain Injuries could negate the wonderful potential of these initiatives.

Society has yet to see the long term effects of a child who has been hunching over a laptop, since the age of 5.

A quick look around any college campus, will show numerous examples of young bodies hunched over laptops in unsafe postures. Culminating repetitive stain injuries with every keystroke.

They say they don't feel the pain, but you know they will at 40.

And these young adults have only been on the laptop for a few years.

Are we crippling our children, even before they get into the workplace?

Dorm rooms with various, un-standardized desk heights and $40 wooden chairs. Classrooms with barley enough space to balance a notepad and pen, let alone a notebook computer.

Greg Bright - Owner / Inventor - Keynamics Laptop Stands - 04/06/2004

Various One Laptop Per Child Initiatives

October 29, 2006

But Scottsdale's seven-year plan is a more ambitious one because it aims to retrofit every one of its classrooms at its 34 campuses with a full scope of technology, including wireless laptops for every student to use in class.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1029techclassroom1029.html

October 27, 2006

After nearly two years of planning and staff training, Howard this year joined a handful of schools in Oregon - among them Springfield Middle School - that provide laptop computers to individual students

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/10/27/c1.cr.onetoone.1027.p1.php?section=cityregion

Researchers Weigh Benefits of One Computer Per Lap
Studies aim to determine impact the technology has on student learning

http://www.educ.msu.edu/news/newsbriefs/06/laptop.htm

The One-to-One Institute

http://sparty.crt.net/121/what_is.cfm

October 5th, 2006
6th Graders at Chicago School get Laptops

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/86185,4_1_JO06_JGRADE_S1.article

September 20, 2006
Illinois giving laptops to more than 1,750 students

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15566737.htm

September 27, 2006 - Milfield. UK
First UK school to provide laptops for all students

http://www.berwicktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=970&ArticleID=1790794

September 26, 2006
$10 Laptops - India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2029815.cms

e-Learning Foundation

http://www.e-learningfoundation.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Is a Laptop Initiative in Your Future?

http://images.apple.com/education/k12/onetoone/pdf/5042PI_PBLaptopInitiative.pdf#search=%22Michigan%20one%20to%20one%20laptop%22

Anytime Anywhere Learning

http://www.bgfl.org/services/itaal/default.htm

Maine and Apple Sign Contract to Continue
Maine Learning Technology Initiative

http://www.state.me.us/mlte/

Thailand plans one free laptop per child

http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=115548037724512

Rebounding state budgets boost laptop plans

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showstory.cfm?ArticleID=5995

LearnStar School Recognized as Education Technology Leader

http://www.irvingisd.net/one2one/main.htm

http://www.irvingisd.net/ppage/LearnStarRecognizedSchool.htm

http://www.irvingisd.net/tip/

Department of Education Stats

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/publications/2004011/tables.asp

No Child Left Behind

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=pb

Toward A New Golden Age In American Education--How the Internet, the Law and Today's Students Are Revolutionizing Expectations

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/2004/plan.pdf

Pennsylvania is in the second year of their one-to-one student laptop. program. They have provided laptops to all students in the high school.

http://www.classroomtco.org/one_to_one_case_studies/One2OneOverview.pdf#search=%22Pennsylvania%20one%20to%20one%20laptop%22

The number of North American students enrolled in one-to-one laptop programs is growing annually at around 15 percent and now totals about 500,000, according to the Anywhere Anytime Learning Foundation, a group based in Bellevue, Wash., that studies these initiatives

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06243/717868-298.stm