Dear All, Here in Afghanistan we have worked over the last couple months to put together a thorough briefing note on the state of education here; the barriers to effective education as they are understood through conventional research and how OLPC can rapidly change the input variables to effective education.
I'm quite sure that a lot of the challenges mentioned in the Briefing Note in Afghanistan are applicable to quite a few other countries. Just to be clear here in Afghanistan we and I'm sure no one else is arguing against the need to improve conventional educational systems like school buildings, teacher training, etc. But unfortunately Afghanistan doesn't have the luxury of waiting as long as this might take. http://www.paiwastoon.af/olpcbn/ Any comments/ discussions more than welcome. Please feel free to reference / quote the document / use it to construct new arguments; just we ask for attribution. If anyone is interested in helping out here in any way (advocacy, software, etc) please do email [email protected] . Regards, -Mike _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
