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Neat hardware progress aside, has OLPC been a success in actually educating the target kids? Just putting laptops in hands doesn't automatically educate them. H
by ja27 17y ago
Neat hardware progress aside, has OLPC been a success in actually educating the target kids? Just putting laptops in hands doesn't automatically educate them. Here in the U.S., there are plenty of schools with computer labs, computers in classrooms, or even, yes, one laptop per child.
Based all my teacher and parent friends, all the increased access to computers here hasn't really improved education much. And we're buying expensive commercial educational software, not just Sugar or gCompris.
Maybe the time and money is better spent funding CC / public domain textbooks? That and Sugar are what I'm more interested in supporting.
- qjz 17y agoTo paraphrase you, just putting books in hands doesn't automatically educate them, either. There have been, and always will be, challenges in education. But for those who are willing and able to make good use of the resources available to them, computers and the Internet are two very powerful resources.