best solution, don't! You cite many very good reasons why many people will not benefit from a full computer, but can benefit from DVDs. > 7B people are on the earth and 2B cannot read [400M in India. 2M in the > USA] but they can be educated using video/audio DVDs. Blind and deaf > people can be educated.
Well, don't give them a computer, give then a DVD player! from $25 per http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=dvd+player+portable (Actually, not a bad idea at all considering evidence that too many of these $200+ computers are mostly used, if at all, as (free to the student) alternatives to a $5 MP3 player... :-() Actually, I am really starting to really like the idea of DVD players for mass education. Has possibilities. Cheaper that the Proclaimer 2012/3/5, Ken Hargesheimer <[email protected]>: > How can the laptop be used to play DVDs? I am sending the document below > around the world and I would like to tell people how to use it to play them. > > Ken Hargesheimer > > > > GARDENS/MINI-FARMS NETWORK > > Workshops: USA - TX, MS, FL, CA, AR, NM, WA; > > México, Rep. Dominicana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Honduras, > > Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Haití, England, Nicaragua, > > India, Uzbekistan, South Africa > > * > > [email protected]* > > Workshops in organic, no-till, permanent-bed gardening, mini-farming, > mini-ranching, > > using drip or bucket drip irrigation, worldwide, in English & Español > > > > > > > > > > DVDS for Education and Training > > A CD holds 650 MB. The Bible is 1.4 MB. Therefore, *a CD holds 464 copies > of the Bible. A DVD holds 3,000 copies of the Bible. A dual layer DVD > holds 6,000 copies of the Bibles.* > > Just imagine what would happen if every school, church, village, library, > etc in the bush of Africa, the jungles of Latin America and the mountains > of Asia had a computer and DVD library. The internet is not necessary and > is expensive in some areas. People can study for hours on a computer using > DVDs with little or no cost. Thousands of DVDs are available on hundreds > of subjects and many are free. I have farming DVDs. Whatever a person > wants to learn is available on a DVD. HHTwebsite copier [free] can be used > to download websites into a computer from the internet. Use CDburner XP > [free] to burn to a DVD. > > 7B people are on the earth and 2B cannot read [400M in India. 2M in the > USA] but they can be educated using video/audio DVDs. Blind and deaf > people can be educated. > > Movies could be shown to the public for a fee to help with the cost. Rent > it to people studying vocational DVDs. > > All computers operate internally on 12 v. Those without electricity use a > computer, internally altered, to operate directly on 12 v. from a battery > with a solar charger [email for instructions]. A pedal*/*powered generator > can be used to charge the battery. This opens up a whole new way to > teach. > > *School in a Suitcase:* > http://winministries.org/website/index.php/nation2nation, a religious > group,has hundreds of schools in many countries; over 100 in Cuba. A > person with a computer [operating on 12 v.], printer and DVD library can > travel from place to place, on a schedule, to teach and train people. This > is a very simple, inexpensive, effective way to educate children, youth and > adults Use a bicycle or a bicycle and trailer for transportation. > > > > *Mobile schools: * > > Vietnam*:* Computer literacy is a luxury. The Dariu Foundation provides > computer training to kids in remote villages using a mobile school equipped > with computers, internet access and access to e-library containing DVDs in > agriculture, animal feeding, etc. Not only kids but clients benefit from > this school. Dariu.org > > * * > > India*: * > guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2011/sep/30/india-mobile-school-video<http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2011/sep/30/india-mobile-school-video>. > > > > > Kenya*:* Education for pastoralist communities. > changemakers.com/educationafrica/entries/mobile-schools-basic-education-pastoralist-communities<http://www.changemakers.com/educationafrica/entries/mobile-schools-basic-education-pastoralist-communities> > > > > Ken Hargesheimer > > > > > - curriki.org [K-12] > - world-virtual-school.com <http://www.world-virtual-school.com/> > - e-learningforkids.org <http://www.e-learningforkids.org/> > - inacol.org <http://www.inacol.org/> > - edublogs.org > - hippocampus.org/ <http://www.hippocampus.org/> > - nrocmath.org > - oercommons.org/ <http://www.oercommons.org/> > - Khanacademy.org [free courses. Can be downloaded on to DVDs and used > anywhere] > - icr.org/essentials <http://www.icr.org/essentials/> Creation science > studies. > - olpcnews.com <http://www.olpcnews.com/> [laptop computers for > children] > - http://one.laptop.org/about/mission > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
