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Buying good textbooks to learn from is a lot more cost effective than spending on the high-speed internet connections that is needed to download even a short vi
by billswift 17y ago
Buying good textbooks to learn from is a lot more cost effective than spending on the high-speed internet connections that is needed to download even a short video in any reasonable time. This "resource" is only useful to already have high-speed internet access.
- chaosmachine 17y agoA month of high speed internet is cheaper than a single text book in many countries. Considering there's probably 40 textbooks worth of material on this one page alone, nevermind the rest of the internet, I'd say priorities should be on providing internet access.
- argv_empty 17y agoThat and high-speed internet may be a sunk cost anyway.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoOLPC + Khan Academny videos = win.
- GFischer 17y agoOnly if they were in Spanish - here in Uruguay we have the OLPC deployed for all schoolchildren, but most students don't have the level of English required :)
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoWell your Spanish is good ...?! It's not a huge stretch to imagine someone sitting and redubbing one of these though is it?
- GFischer 17y agoWell, it sounds like a long project to me :) . It would be a nice project, though, maybe I'll propose it (and contribute to it). Guess the first step would be contacting Khan. PD: Spanish is my mother tongue.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoGood on ya! I was thinking more akin to having a site that would facilitate the redubbing allowing you to upload a dub via the site which would then be patched onto the video. You'd need some verification and voting on best dubs.
- GFischer 17y agoYou're right, I'm dumb :) . Even some subtitles might help, and that's a much smaller project :)
- mbrubeck 17y agoInternet access can be pooled, and many people who don't have it at home can get it from libraries, schools, or other organizations. (The same is true of books, of course.)
- roundsquare 17y agoIn which country? (Just curious).