Satish Jha You described children's experience using Internet. I believe in India such children are usually the haves and the better off. What is/are your experience with regard to rural India where the digital divide is all about? How are they faring in India. What are their challenges. Why ICT fails to reach them? Have any study been made on what is wrong? It would be interesting to hear from someone over there. The next country after China (have got someone to do it here), I would be going would be India to help to close the digital divides among the have nots there. Any idea? Regards Alan
www.paperlesshomework.com An elearning solution for rural areas where online/CDs cannot reach. Get the latest happenings through paperlesshomework tool bar www.paperlesshomework.communitytoolbars.com --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Satish Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Satish Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 5:41 PM Its a very interesting discussion that may find a definitive answer rather elusive.. Going by some more recent experience, at least having forgotten the warts of my own schooling the way they may have seemed then, I am glad to share the experience of my more recent encounters with early schooling, call it primary, secondary etc..or whatever works.. The students who are able to use the net, particularly wikipedia, find that their teachers are living in another era in terms of expression, what they reward and the guidelines they follow.. that creates a conflict between the two worlds children live in and feel helpless at the hands of their teacher who they perceive more as a tormentor.. This is more true of over-achievers than the rest.. but the feeling seems more generalized.. The over-achieving students while doing well still find the method of teaching a huge pain, a burden rather than an aide.. They can learn a lot better with more flexible style, curriculum etc if they need to go for "learning learning", even more so in the context of using OLPC, with rather suggestive monitoring rather than imposition and knowledge being thrust upon them.. Technologies have made it possible for students to learn 100% of what they need to rather than depending on a selective knowledge to be certified having graduated.. We do not seem to have begun using them.. On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Catherine Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Tom > -- > Satish Jha > President & CEO > OLPC India > One Cambridge Center > Cambridge, MA 02142 > T: 301 841 7422 > F:301560 4909 > www.laptop.org > __________________ > http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=tab_pro > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Jha > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
