On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > Even if OLPC America exists, it is doing precisely nothing. So why > > don't we start our own OLPC USA and get things moving? > > Since cost is not as important in USA as it is in other countries, we need > to show substantially different outcomes comparing OLPC laptops with, say, > Windows XP or Apple. Americans want the best quality education at any cost.
Maine uses Apple notebooks for 7-12. They aren't nearly rugged enough, I'm told. Breakage is reported to be a serious problem. > My opinion is that we need an army of anthropologists documenting everything > that is happening in Uruguay, Mongolia, and Peru. And education researchers. Birmingham, Alabama, too, and Maine's program. -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
