On Friday 09 May 2008 9:33:26 pm Eben Eliason wrote: > > Even if you were to provide an computer exclusively to each child, they > > are unlikely to be in use all day long. Programmers in IT companies may > > spend their whole day before a computer, but children do have a life > > beyond the keyboard :-). > > You bring up two points both of which, I feel, support the goals of > OLPC and Sugar. First, child ownership ensures that the kids get to > take the laptops /home/ with them. Access to computing should not be confused with ownership of laptops. Ask anyone who used a laptop for more than a few hours away from a power socket :-).
For many kids, "home" is a single room affair. They spend most of their waking hours in the outdoors. "I live in a very big house where the sky is the roof", joked a kid. Ownership per se means nothing to them. What they need is access to a learning environment. Often, a village school is the only place where they can learn. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETrXmnRDco for a reality check. Education can happen even on entry level laptops in such schools. The higher cost could be offset by sharing one laptop between two kids (OLP2C!). Subbu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
