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by dragonwriter
3339 days ago
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> The One Laptop Per Child people thought it would be the killer app for laptops. No, they didn't. They thought laptops would be a useful enabling technology for a particular model of education, but did not think that education would be the killer app for laptops (a product that was so we'll established by that time that thinking about it even needing a "killer app" at that point is senseless.) |
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>Negroponte seems to question whether teachers are needed at all. Speaking about providing the rural poor a solid educational basis for development at the 2007 Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, Germany, Negroponte said: “It’s not about training teachers. It’s not about building schools. With all due respect [to Hewlett-Packard’s e-inclusion efforts], it’s not about curriculum or content. It’s about leveraging the children themselves.
>David Cavallo, OLPC’s chief education architect, says, “We’re hoping that these countries won’t just make up ground but will jump into a new educational environment.”
The OLPC people thought they were going to cause a literal, actual revolution in learning. Didn't happen.