[school-discuss] OLPC success story

[Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was posted on my local LUG, was too good not to forward, pardon me 
if I missed it on the Schoolforge list.  Says the OLPC concept key 
benefits are 1) kids sharing (initially ideas, then even physical 
things, even in impoverished schools), 2) kids contributing (extending 
teaching materials beyond the curriculum provided by the Ministry of 
Ed), and 3) observability of the benefits of schooling by parents in the 
home (thereby alleviating partially the concern of poorer parents that 
kids need to help out 100% of their home time around the farm rather do 
school work).  Very enlightening.  Daniel

http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay

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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation