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 darkfire79 rated 13 months ago- But with a laptop, after properly being educated and with a connection to the internet - they can learn about water sanitation, etc.. and whatever else they need or want to learn to improve their situation. It's the digital age equivalent of the fishing rod.
- Tags: science, education, social, olpc, kids, open-source
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- mfischer2 rated 13 months agoscience
- We should give them a phone to play with too. Future call center workers...
- demonveen rated 13 months agoscience
- There is a whole wonderful chapter in human history being written right now, and the leadership of the OLPC project is so cool that they will allow anyone who wants to, to participate.
- vvk rated 13 months agocomputers, education, science, social, kids
- Khairat ChronicleThe power of computing, placed in the little hands of the future.The One Laptop Per Child initiative is already exemplifying its concept. School in a small village in India, is using XO laptops for educating kids.Khairat-Dhangarwada is a small village, towards the east of Mumbai, in India. The OPLC-India team at Navi Mumbai with the sponsorship of Reliance, has initiated a spectacular pilot project to integrate the OPLC XO laptops with primary school education in rural India.The school is multilevel. Children from first to fourth standard take classes in the same classroom with the same teacher. Sometimes they all listen to the same explanation or work on the same assignment, but the teacher usually assigns different tasks to each level, and when the younger ones get stuck and he is busy working with other students, children from third and fourth standard help the first and second standard ones. With the XO laptops, they help each other by explaining or by pointing a finger at the screen or keyboard or by checking the work done. And it's not necessarily the older ones who help the younger, nor age or grade level what determines how they group together. You can also see children by themselves, focused on their work, oblivious to what is going on around them, even to what the teacher is saying or doing -and in this case it's totally OK to not pay attention to the teacher.Although the teacher conducts the activities and is the leader and most knowledgeable one in the room, there reigns an atmosphere of independent work and independent grouping and consultations.The smaller ones are natural scouts and keep on exploring the laptops on their own, and when they find something interesting or need some help, they go to others to show them their findings or be helped out.They learn so much by always being in touch with the 'basics' and previously learned facts, knowledge, or skills, and by teaching others, they reinforce their knowledge.
- johnnyhay rated 13 months agoscience
- That's great.
- Merick rated 13 months agoscience
- I've been wanting to read an account of something like this.
- Anudhyan rated 13 months agoscience
- This is amazing. It will take time for them to learn to use the internet and read English, I guess. But they need much more than laptops.
- darkfire79 rated 13 months agoscience
- But with a laptop, after properly being educated and with a connection to the internet - they can learn about water sanitation, etc.. and whatever else they need or want to learn to improve their situation. It's the digital age equivalent of the fishing rod.
- cano-sk rated 13 months agoscience
- OK, they have laptops. Now they just need desks with chairs to sit on. And shoes and tap water and ... If I would live in that shit, laptop is the last think I would care of.
- iqbaltabrez rated 13 months agoscience
- First school implementation with prototype B4 XO laptops(OLPC) in India(Khairat School).
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