Oscar Becerra addresses some of the issues raised in the article in his response the the UN Foundation blog of last week:
http://www.undispatch.com/node/8859#comment-346 -walter On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kevin Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my > inbox... If so, my apologies. > > A researcher in my office subscribes to Miller-McCune magazine, whose slogan > is "Turning Research into Solutions". After seeing last week's presentation > by SJ et al, he handed me an article from the latest issue (September / > October 2009, Volume 2, Number 5). > > | News and Opinions by Timothy Ogden (page 12) > | > | COMPUTER ERROR? > | There appears to be cheaper, more effective ways to improve education in > developing nations than the glitzy One Laptop per Child program. > > The article is available on-line > at http://miller-mccune.com/business_economics/computer-error-1390 > > At the risk of being burned at the stake, though I'm one of the devout, I > think the author makes some good arguments that should be either countered > POLITELY and/or addressed. > -- > Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo > Washington, DC > http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
