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At the time of the program in many areas of Argentina it was rather internet was not really widespread enough. And when the kids would go in the internet would
by ericol 7y ago
At the time of the program in many areas of Argentina it was rather internet was not really widespread enough.
And when the kids would go in the internet would be either to play Counter-Strike or log into Facebook, that was taking over the world at the time.
> if you give them sufficient baseline education
That didn't happen. I think even 1/500 is too optimist.
Anecdotally, there were some security measures implemented in the netbooks in Argentina that would require periodic re-enabling (So as to prevent kids for quitting school?) and the only "smart" thing I saw coming out of the netbooks was kids finding out how to circumvent those measures (That in this age and time means just googling it)