OK, I've noticed the same constructivist trend you did, but am on the other side of the fence in terms of approving of it. OLPC was clearly of that school and d

OK, I've noticed the same constructivist trend you did, but am on the other side of the fence in terms of approving of it. OLPC was clearly of that school and did fail to provide alternatives, but I'm far from convinced that a viable alternative to constructivism exists. It's one of those things that's very easy to criticise, yet hard to suggest replacing with some other actionable idea, which is why it's destined to keep reappearing as the technologist's solution for education ad infinitum. It's worth saying that things like the Khan academy just didn't exist at the inception of OLPC, nor did netbooks at all. I'm very critical of the project (I think Negroponte is a smooth talking arse) but things by technologists rarely are what they say they are, and more often than not the purpose is merely the development of more technology not the actual stated aim of whatever they're involved in. OLPC was never an education project at all, and anyone persuaded otherwise was merely deluding themselves.