elliott-brennan wrote:
The SMH had some very exciting news today.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html
The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous
communities.
Not that exciting. They are going to evaluate it in one classroom.
There's a significant chance the trial will fail as the amount of
application software aimed at children on the OLPC is currently zero
and the amount of supprting training and curriculum material is
currently zero. The OLPC has the potential to become an expensive
white elephant unless this basic low tech and boring issues are
seen to.
There's been enough fads imposed on remote communities by special
interests with a barrow to push. Let's not add another one before
the basics of health, housing and employment are less shameful.
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