One Laptop Per Child Foundation No Longer a Disruptive Force, Bender Fears (Xconomy)

Xconomy is running a lengthy interview with Walter Bender about where he plans to go from here. "I think the culture around free software is actually a powerful culture for learning, and one of my goals from the very beginning of the project was to try to instill in the education industry some of the culture and technology and morals of the open source movement. I think it would greatly enhance the learning and education industry and their ability to engage teachers and students. So many different things are tied up in this concept. It’s both about freedom, and the freedom to be critical. Criticism of ideas is a powerful force in learning, and unleashing that is, I think, an important part of the OLPC mission."

(By way of Ivan Krstić; also worth a read).

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