On Christmas Eve, Slashdot reposted an article from the Chicago Tribute on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. The newspaper article is, in itself, interesting, but in addition the large volume of reactions to the story is striking: some 145 within a few days of the posting.
For students in the seminar that don't know Slashdot, I recommend sifting through its archives and monitoring the blog-style site regularly because it is, as the logo slogan says, "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." For a basic description of Slashdot, see the Wikipedia article.
OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 24, @04:43PM
from the whatever-turns-your-crank dept.
mrcgran writes "The Chicago Tribune is running a feel-good story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in Peru. 'Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. At breakfast, they're already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night, they're dozing off in front of them — if they've managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed.'"
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