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Shooting fish in a barrel but - In the first world - Computers are not generally useful for a classroom To try and be useful you must also have significant
by aaron695 7y ago
Shooting fish in a barrel but -
In the first world -
Computers are not generally useful for a classroom
To try and be useful you must also have significant education for teachers and have significant maintenance budget.
We know the "Sugata Mitra’s famous Hole-In-The-Wall" failed, and we knew that years ago.
Turning down Windows and Mac support which rich people use is insulting.
The concept people would steal the OLPC (The reason for the color) is dumb, but unstoppable anyway, so the fact for years they wouldn't sell OLPC's to developers and hobbyists because of this imaginary blackmarket, shows the lack of thought and also the total arrogance to pretend it was "open".
It was well known at the time it came out people in the communities needed mobiles phones and radios. But it just wasn't sexy enough for NGO's. The whole industry is a scam designed to be just barely enough to get the next round of funding, this project just further supported this systematic structural flaw.
- tim333 7y ago>Computers are not generally useful for a classroom I kind of agree with that. There seems a bit of a common problem with charitable 1st world people building things for 3rd world countries that they assume some distorted idea of what they want when they probably did school with pen, paper and books themselves and that's probably what works elsewhere. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africar - people in Africa don't want wooden cars - they drive Toyotas and similar, just often beat up ones. Usually what works in poor places is the same as what works in richer one but a bit lower budget.