Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 - (Page 20)

Want to be a doctor? Make it a reality. POST-BACCALAUREATE PREMEDICAL PROGRAM The Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program at Goucher College is a oneyear curriculum of courses required for medical school admission. · · · · 100% medical school acceptance rate Classes separate from undergraduates Comprehensive advising and support Linkage agreements with eight medical schools Visit goucher.edu/postbac or call 1-800-414-3437 for more information. One Give One, or G1G1. Canadians and Americans can buy an XO-1 for $400–double the current $200 cost of a single laptop and receive one laptop. e remaining $200 will be donated to OLPC to further the one-learninglaptop-per-child idea in the developing world. Before Peace Corps volunteers get too excited with visions of equipping host village schools with XO laptops, One Laptop Per Child doesn’t have plans to oﬀer the XO at its $200 cost to individual buyers or nonproﬁt organizations, no matter the worth of their cause. Outside of the G1G1 sales plan, OLPC is still working directly with national governments. OLPC claims it cannot aﬀord the logistics for individual or small-lot purchases–even on a large scale–and still expects to reach its oft-promised, yet not realized $100 laptop goal. THE PEACE CORPS PROMISE GOUCHER COLLEGE Education without boundaries If freed from this artiﬁcial distribution restriction, XO-1 laptops could be deployed by each current or returned Peace Corps volunteers who would be responsible for delivery to a child in their project site, assurance that it is used to learn learning and that it would be treasured as a valuable community tool for education. OLPC’s computers are designed for children to learn in the developing world–they are rugged, easy-to-use and humanpowered. e computers could open a window onto the world for the children and by extension their families and community. And once the children outgrow the laptops, the technology can be repurposed in ways we can only imagine. I hope Nicholas Negroponte will realize this Peace Corps promise quickly, while he still has the attention of the world’s leaders and before other companies eclipse his amazing educational technology invention. Wayan Vota is editor of OLPC News.com, an independent view of the One Laptop Per Child program. He is the director of Mercy Corps’ MicroMentor project. He previously directed Geekcorps, a Peace Corps for technology experts, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Russia. 20 Winter 2007 http://goucher.edu/postbac http://goucher.edu/postbac http://goucher.edu/postbac http://www.peacecorpsfellows-wiu.org http://www.peacecorpsfellows-wiu.org

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Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 Contents President's Note Lafayette Park Note to Readers Commentary Letter from India Commentary Letter from Botswana Letter from Ha Teboho Letter from Jumbi Valley Letter from Mununga Letter from Medellin Giving Back Community News

Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007

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