Low-cost laptop could transform learning (Yahoo)

Yahoo has an AP article on the OLPC project. "Nicholas Negroponte, who launched the project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab two years ago before spinning One Laptop into a separate nonprofit, said he deliberately wanted to avoid giving children computers they might someday use in an office. 'In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint,' Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. 'I consider that criminal, because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools.'"

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