[wsfii-discuss] olpc presentation

Sat Dec 31 03:40:03 UTC 2005

this presentation by negroponte on his One Laptop Per Child project is
worth checking out.  he seems to make it clear that the priority is on
changing the mentality of kids through a different epistemology
(through using computers as engines which children would teach and
thus learn by teaching -
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED2-07.html)

i'm probably just repeating myself in saying that the exciting part of
this project is that the laptops are running squeak, not that they can
do mesh.  my 2 cents.

he's saying that encouraging children to do peer-to-peer learning is
more powerful than making a small increase in no. of teachers.

link to presentation:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/12/30/1957201.shtml?tid=126&tid=219

mike
http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org