> I've never seen a piece > of hardware so simple that a child in a third world > nation (who is completely digitally illiterate) > could intuitively repair. A child who > has never seen a laptop before cannot intuitively > use a mouse/trackpad.
I have! http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/ Here's another. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/ Just two of many examples of well-designed, self-directed learning environments overcoming the need for structured training, in the process, defining new learning paradigms. As the teacher of a technology workforce development program in New York City, I quickly learned that students learnt faster than I could teach, if I left them alone and set up interesting problems for them to solve. -SG _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
