Instead of OLPC a Nepalis newspaper proposes to give teachers the connectivity tools to guide students through the knowledge in the internet. Nepali Times | Previous
The media coverage of OLPC I've seen so far has been mindlessly positive towards this program. Has there been other coverage questioning the benefits of this program? I for one is a little suspicious: while it is great that technology for the third world is being developed, the idea of "one laptop per child" makes a great and easy to understand headline and fundraising slogan, may be too simplistic for realistic and effective implementation. Thoughts?
OLPC is a good project and is the passion of a lot of people who are working on it. sure there are OTHER things that could happen, but those other things don't have to be instead of OLPC. it's kind of a both/and situation. the problem is finding people who are passionate about those other things and want to work on them.
the value of a program like OLPC shouldn't be downplayed because of those who would say '...but they could have been doing __ instead'. there will ALWAYS be that something else.
while its good to be constructively critical towards aspects of the program, i would have to agree with Steven in saying that the upside of OLPC shouldn't be overlooked as the result of skeptical speculation.
As far as implementation, the distribution and beta tests that Nick Negroponte mentioned in his lecture at MIT last fall seemed to be as successful as the developers could have hoped. Besides, the laptops are wiki (my personal favorite little detail about them)!
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The media coverage of OLPC I've seen so far has been mindlessly positive towards this program. Has there been other coverage questioning the benefits of this program? I for one is a little suspicious: while it is great that technology for the third world is being developed, the idea of "one laptop per child" makes a great and easy to understand headline and fundraising slogan, may be too simplistic for realistic and effective implementation. Thoughts?
OLPC is a good project and is the passion of a lot of people who are working on it. sure there are OTHER things that could happen, but those other things don't have to be instead of OLPC. it's kind of a both/and situation. the problem is finding people who are passionate about those other things and want to work on them.
the value of a program like OLPC shouldn't be downplayed because of those who would say '...but they could have been doing __ instead'. there will ALWAYS be that something else.
while its good to be constructively critical towards aspects of the program, i would have to agree with Steven in saying that the upside of OLPC shouldn't be overlooked as the result of skeptical speculation.
As far as implementation, the distribution and beta tests that Nick Negroponte mentioned in his lecture at MIT last fall seemed to be as successful as the developers could have hoped. Besides, the laptops are wiki (my personal favorite little detail about them)!
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