Thank you, Joel, for pointing out all the taken-for-granteds implicit in the
advocacy of OLPC. Sarah
The narratives of the world are numberless. . . . there nowhere is nor has
been a people without narrative.--Roland Barthes
Sarah Blackmun-Eskow
President, The Pangaea Network
290 North
Hello steve,
I do generaly agree with your views except that I would like to change this
little bit..
You said The real choice is between online learning or
no learning.
It would be more appropriate to rephrase it as
The real choice is between online/offline learning throug ICT or
no
Hello Sarah,
Yes what you said is true.
The point however is how you can improve on the current bad situation it
already is.
Let me give you a very simple contribution of a simple OLPC laptop or rather we
should use the term ULPC - Ultra Low cost PC rather than One Laptop Per child
(which
Reinvent the word, not the concept, because the word telecenter does not
convey meaning
to anyone who doesn't already know what it means. Whereas community
computing center
does convey meaning even if you never heard the phrase before.
IMO a Telecentre is best defined by the societal context
