Dear All.
Imagine one billion children in the developing world learning their
lessons and working on homework using their own personal laptop.
The $100 Laptop will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen
laptop, which initially is achieved either by rear projecting the
image on a flat screen or by using electronic ink (developed at the
MIT Media Lab). In addition, it will be rugged, use innovative power
(including wind-up), be WiFi- and cell phone-enabled, and have USB
ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1
Megapixel. The cost of materials for each laptop is estimated to be
approximately $90, which includes the display, as well as the
processor and memory, and allows for $10 for contingency or profit.
Inn another hand, Thirty million teachers are needed to achieve
Education for All by 2015.
http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=37695&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
For us and/or for them, we are in the same boat. Using a computer at
home might actually reduce a child's performance in maths, science
and English rather than improve it, a study has found.
Researchers who looked at 100,000 children in 32 countries originally
found that children from homes with computers performed better. In
fact houses with computers were likely to be from a richer social
class, and when these factors were removed performance was less than
expected.
But books do have a positive impact on a child's performance at
school. Children living in a house with more than 500 books in it do
much better at maths and science than those in homes without books.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/computers_bad_for_schools/
Regards
...Amrow Hijazi...
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