Folks,
It looks like I was right on the money when I said it would be around
five
years before the OLPC project really got launched. Now there are
viable notebook computers in the $200-450 range, most running a
form of Linux. I'll spare the list my ideas about helping the disabled
because of my basic question: What, exactly, is a child as far as the
OLPC project is concerned?
I think of school "formally" beginning around age three in pre-school,
and
that computer use could be taught from ages three to five or six which
would include grade school. But classes and learning can be developed
for children well into their teens. This presents the issue of whether
having one keyboard size for all ages needs some rethinking. A student
may be happy when she is seven or eight; another may find using the
same keyboard more difficult when he has grown to age 15.
I have begun work on a program that may wind up as a patch to the Linux
kernel; it may be a stand-alone daemon. There are many possibilities
of my program turning slightly hard-to-press keys from dull to having
some audio feedback. This may be helpful for some students with some
kinds of disabilities. Thus, my interest in keyboard sizes.
gary kline
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