Re: [Olpc-open] RES: Defining success

2012-01-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:43:32PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Marta Voelcker In fact, in schools where the government has stopped caring or assessing, the teachers actually have more leeway to bring in alternative methods of learning. After six months of

Re: [Olpc-open] RES: Defining success

2012-01-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:43:32PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Marta Voelcker In fact, in schools where the government has stopped caring or assessing, the teachers actually have more

[Olpc-open] RES: Defining success

2012-01-24 Thread Marta Voelcker
Hello, This is quite an interesting point. I write from Brazil, and I am also working on my dissertation, not exactly about OLPC but about how the use of ICT on education contributes for the change for new paradigms on education, the barriers for effective and scale innovation ( which