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Sure, it's a nice gesture, but I'm wondering how they will solve the electricity problem in Ghana with desktop computers?
by Hydraulix989 9y ago
Sure, it's a nice gesture, but I'm wondering how they will solve the electricity problem in Ghana with desktop computers?
- INTPenis 9y agoEveryone keeps pointing out electricity but first off, not all of Ghana is suffering from a power shortage. Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before.
- aaron695 9y ago>Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before. Not it's not. I've seem this mentality and it's very destructive. Things need too be done properly else they make things worse. Computers cost a lot to run, electricity costs, they need people who know the pedagogy, they need people to repair them after a teacher puts in a lot of work getting lessons plans ready. Life isn't a movie. They won't have amazing teachers and amazing students who band together to just get stuff working. Even with this amazing teacher, will the admin allow him to teacher computers all day to all the other classes? Probably not. This is not how schools are structured. He'll have other responsibilities. And possibly more important ones at that. The ""Hole in the Wall Computer" was a failure. We need to learn from these mistakes and move forward. (It's a clicked 50 year old mistake so I'm not sure how though) [Edit] And if they do have electricity like you say then why - "He does have a computer at home, "but the battery is too weak to send it to school," he says."
- hapidjus 9y agoI think the parent meant why desktop computers instead of laptops.
- Hydraulix989 9y agoRight. Sorry, I thought it was more obvious. My friends who live in Ghana go days without being able to access the Internet. It's actually a big problem.