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MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village (Chicago Tribune)
The Chicago Tribune is carrying a
look at one of the first OLPC deployments in Peru. "The children
of Arahuay prove One Laptop's transformative conceit: that you can
revolutionize education and democratize the Internet by giving a simple,
durable, power-stingy but feature-packed laptop to the worlds' poorest
kids. 'Some tell me that they don't want to be like their parents, working
in the fields,' first-grade teacher Erica Velasco says of her pupils. She
had just sent them to the Internet to seek out photos of invertebrates -
animals without backbones.'"
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MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village (Chicago Tribune) Posted Dec 23, 2007 23:50 UTC (Sun) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]
Hmmm. Article says: "The higher-than-initially-advertised price and a lack of the Windows
operating system, still being tested for the XO, have dissuaded many potential government
buyers."
If the AP were wikipedia, I'd hafta say {citation needed}. Is there any evidence of the latter
part of that claim, or is it just speculation on the part of the author?
MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village (Chicago Tribune) Posted Dec 24, 2007 6:58 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I'd say it's probably speculation, and should probably have been 'due to competition from Intel's Classmate PC and Microsoft efforts to resist the spread of this non-Windows PC' - all IMO of course. Having said that, this is an amazing article - the OLPC really does seem to be having the intended effect, unleashing the creativity and drive to learn that is often suppressed by lack of resources and learning tools. The OLPC really is an education tool, not a computer, and it should be judged mostly on whether it improves the education of children in developing countries.
MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village (Chicago Tribune) Posted Dec 24, 2007 16:12 UTC (Mon) by paulnicklin (guest, #28110) [Link] Surely concept, not conceit. An unfortunate typo
MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village (Chicago Tribune) Posted Dec 25, 2007 14:54 UTC (Tue) by amk (subscriber, #19) [Link] "Conceit" also has the meaning of "idea", so the article's usage is correct, if a little old-fashioned.
MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village (Chicago Tribune) Posted Dec 28, 2007 3:56 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] > they don't want to be like their parents, working in the fields they'll be cheap offshore programmers instead. now i get the idea of the whole program ;))
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