Re: [school-discuss] One Laptop Per Child?

["Vedran Vucic" <vedran.vucic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am struck by your opinion and what I think that the kids do not need:

1) adults who will on their behalf allow access to tools for learning
and prevent them to use various tools for learning because "adults
think what is the best for them how to learn"
2) adults who will always force them accept their personal authenticity as understood by adults
3) adults who preach technology and prevent kids to access technology

best wishes,

veki

On 1/2/07, Anthony Papillion <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I couldn't agree more.

Since I first heard of the OLPC program, I've found it insane.

 

When your world is dominated by where your next meal is coming from and IF your next meal is coming, you probably aren't too concerned about things like PC's, the Internet, etc.

 

This is one project that should die an early and fast death.

 

Warmly,

Anthony Papillion

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From: ààààààà|Praveen

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Subject: [school-discuss] One Laptop Per Child?

An interesting article by one of the GNU Classpath Developer Roma Kennke http://kennke.org/blog/2006/12/21/one-laptop-per-child/

He thinks what our children really need are:

* Parents.
* Time to learn.
* Childhood.

and they don't need:

* Floods of information and media.
* Plastic toys
* And certainly, kids don't need a computer

I really liked this article and agree with some of his views.

Regards
Praveen

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