Powerful mate revs up remote students (fwd link)

[Jennifer Teeter]

Hello everyone!

Thank you Phil Cash Cash for sending out another thought provoking  
article! This is my first time to post something here so yorkshiku  
onegaishimasu(I hope it's okay!)
I am curious to hear people's opinions of the "One laptop per Child"  
initiative mentioned in this article. I am a little concerned with the  
approach not necessarily the lap top itself. The teachers at the  
school are saying it is making their lives easier. But is that causing  
them not to deeply confront and overcome the issues that prevent  
students from attending school. I feel that if used improperly, the  
laptop solution could be a bandaid solution. What are the best ways to  
implement this program? If you have time it would be great to gear  
your opinions.

Best regards

jennifer teeter





On 2009/05/30, at 2:15, phil cash cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>  
wrote:

> Powerful mate revs up remote students
>
> REBEKAH CAVANAGH
> May 28th, 2009
> Northern Territory News, AUS
>
> MOVE over conventional laptops - these Territory kids are crossing  
> the digital
> divide with "green machines".
>
> Weighing 1.5kg and just 24.2cm long and 22.8cm wide, the compact XO  
> laptop is
> being delivered to disadvantaged primary school-aged children across  
> the nation
> as part of the One Laptop per Child initiative.
>
> About 100 students from Shepherdson College on Elcho Island, about  
> 550 km
> northeast of Darwin, were among the first to receive the new  
> learning tool.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/05/28/54355_ntnews.html