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Maung Nyeu

Negroponte On OLPC Future: Air Drops And Hands-Off Education | TechCrunch - 0 views

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shared by Maung Nyeu on 03 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 03 Nov 11
     
    Interesting topic! One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte plans to airdrop tablet computers in remote villages and then come back a year later to see how it worked. Remember the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy" or the story of "Hole in the wall" in India? Here is the link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_CjRbZ5EI)
Sunanda V

New tack for OLPC: Let the students teach themselves - 0 views

www.extremetech.com/...-the-students-teach-themselves

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shared by Sunanda V on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Sunanda V on 30 Oct 12
     
    Apparently their new strategy is to "airdrop" OLPC laptops into communities and let students teach themselves. Now, I'm all for students learning by creating and constructivist pedagogy... but this seems altogether irresponsible. Also, seems like we're promoting different standards for students in low income/low resource settings vs. students in resource rich settings through initiatives like this--and not in a good way. =/
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