chocolatecity.cc
6 Nov 12
Thanks to nhne-pulse.org for the find.
….One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization. OLPC is a non-profit organization that aims to provide every child in the world with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop.
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….OLPC performed a bold experiment that has shown “encouraging” results. OLPC dropped off closed and taped boxes with Motorola Xoom tablets and without any instruction in two remote Ethiopian villages. The tablets were preloaded with alphabet-training games, e-books, movies, cartoons, paintings, and other programs. About 20 first-grade-aged children each were given a tablet in Wonchi and Wolonchete respectively — two isolated rural villages without a person that can read or write.
Within four minutes after the tablets were dropped off, one of the children figured out how to turn on and use the tablet.
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OLPC reports that within five days, they were using about 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”
McNierney, OLPC’s chief technology officer, said that the kids had gotten around OLPC’s effort to freeze desktop settings. “The kids had completely customized the desktop — so every kids’ tablet looked different. We had installed software to prevent them from doing that,” McNierney said. “And the fact they worked around it was clearly the kind of creativity, the kind of inquiry, the kind of discovery that we think is essential to learning,” he added.
http://www.chocolatecity.cc/2012/11/...ican-children/
http://nhne-pulse.org/one-laptop-per...ican-children/
http://one.laptop.org/
Originally Posted by Sheila
