[Edu-sig] laptop backlash

[kirby urner]

Somes schools will voluntarily affiliate with NGOs trafficing in
laptops by the palette, and the NGOs won't mind if they see the
hardware going to intelligent uses.  So it's not an adversarial
relationship with the schools in all necks of the woods.  But it is in
some.  We live in a diverse world.  What's going on in the so-called
Empire State on the Atlantic side of North America is one National
Geographic story among many.  I don't set my own personal watch by the
New York Times, that much is certain.

Kirby


On 5/8/07, thomas knoll <tk at dydimustk.com> wrote:
> I understand the goal of OLPC is to get the technology into the hand
> of kids for self directed learning, not to get them into schools.
> Unfortunately, it will be years and years before schools focus on
> interactive education, and students will be the driving force.
> Eventually they will demand it, and teachers will have to learn from
> the students how to interact with them. I deeply appreciate OLPC's
> focus on getting the laptops into the hands of kids, rather than
> heading down the bureaucratic path of trying to get them into schools.
>
>
> gratia vobis et pax,
> TK
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