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1 Most recent blog post

Most recent post: Blog/20100316 Robots

Alan Jackson of Aptivate writes about getting some robots out to rural Zambia:

Computers aren’t just useful for the stuff they do. I believe that programming computers, tinkering with them, making electronic circuits and building robots builds highly transferable skills. Critical thinking, logical and abstract reasoning and problem solving. In addition, programming an Arduino makes you a dab hand at searching the Internet. (read more)

Some more links:

• Samfya
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8302294.stm
• http://oer.aptivate.org/wiki/Src

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2 Blog & News

• Blog/20100316 Robots
• Blog/20100312 Zi8
• Blog/20100226 free websites
• Blog/20100209 Matterhorn 0.5 - start climbing
• Blog/20100204 Crisis Camp

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