On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM, K. K. Subramaniam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 09 May 2008 9:33:26 pm Eben Eliason wrote: >> > Even if you were to provide an computer exclusively to each child, they >> > are unlikely to be in use all day long. Programmers in IT companies may >> > spend their whole day before a computer, but children do have a life >> > beyond the keyboard :-). >> >> You bring up two points both of which, I feel, support the goals of >> OLPC and Sugar. First, child ownership ensures that the kids get to >> take the laptops /home/ with them. > Access to computing should not be confused with ownership of laptops. Ask > anyone who used a laptop for more than a few hours away from a power > socket :-). >
Or that in some places a child can not own anything as they are effectively 'owned' by their parents until they are of age. > For many kids, "home" is a single room affair. They spend most of their waking > hours in the outdoors. "I live in a very big house where the sky is the > roof", joked a kid. Ownership per se means nothing to them. What they need > is access to a learning environment. Often, a village school is the only > place where they can learn. > > See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETrXmnRDco for a reality check. > Thankyou for the link... there are places inside the United States that are not too different from there... and they have the same needs. > Education can happen even on entry level laptops in such schools. The higher > cost could be offset by sharing one laptop between two kids (OLP2C!). > > Subbu > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
