Last year, Negroponte promised to "literally take tablets and drop them out of helicopters." I for one am glad he reworked this plan and opted instead to drive the tablets up to each village. We wouldn't want any Ethiopian children killed by tablets raining down from the sky...
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395763,00.asp#fbid=yj2DHk4jyPG On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Yaw Anokwa <[email protected]> wrote: > Turns out Ethiopian children can teach themselves -- all they need is > tablets dropped off in a village. > > "Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing > the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids > would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only > opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five > days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, > they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, > they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said." > > Source: > http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves _______________________________________________ change mailing list [email protected] http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
