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Seems like there was a perennial disagreement (which is continuing today) about the degree to which OLPC was meant to help teach computing, or a curriculum, or
by schoen 7y ago
Seems like there was a perennial disagreement (which is continuing today) about the degree to which OLPC was meant to help teach computing, or a curriculum, or just give students and teachers some tools to do parts of what they were doing anyway in a higher-tech way.
Edit: I particularly appreciate bryanwb's comments on autodidacticism at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21047351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21047351, which point at a fourth possibility: the idea that just having access to computers is good for kids.
- inimino 7y agoYes, this is true. I don't mean to say better software wouldn't have helped--I think OLPC was killed by a combination of factors. (Not least the early trajectory of its hype cycle.) But better software alone ... I don't think it would have materially changed the outcome in any way.