Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
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the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
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Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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