Daniel Escasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Corollary to this, Negroponte considers teaching office productivity
tools to schoolchildren a criminal offense.
The second of Negroponte's points is that "it's not a laptop project,
it's an education project." (I don't think that point is in the quoted
news article, it's one from another story.) It's an education project
that happens to use laptops. Too many PCs-for-schools projects forget
this.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007010902326NWHWEV
Link above gives an excellent overview of the system, it's philosphy & the way
it's supposed to work in a community environment.
Very telling is the quote by Michalis Bletsas (Chief Connectivity Officer for
the OLPC)
"Bletsas also envisions the children becoming their own support network,
trading tricks and tips with each other, and actually becoming peers with their
teachers. "Teachers tend to learn much slower than the kids themselves," he
notes. He says that waiting for teachers to become fully trained in the use of
the XO would bog down adoption significantly. He likens the training and
support model to a peer to peer network. "We believe in empowering the kids."
When you take a good look at how the OLTP is supposed to operate, from it's
very low power requirements, to it's mesh network capabilities, to it's ability
to transform into a server - you realize that this invention is designed to
function in environments where a typical PC (&OS) will fail miserably.
In a very real sense, this is a technologically subversive device, it's
creators want this to do end runs against roadblocks one typically encounters
in a poor or developing country.
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