ehewitt wrote: > Hi Taran, > In the midst of it all remains the original matter that the prime > focus in school is delivery of the curriculum -- I assume from all > this , or rather the UN, MIT and Negroponte assumes I imagine, that > the delivery of the curriculum is already available on the Internet. > The student just "cranks" up the computer and ...Viola!!! QED. > Errol Hewitt
Well, not necessarily on the internet. But available electronically at all is a problem. Maybe the first people who should get the technology and act on it aren't children. Maybe it's the teachers, the writers of schoolbooks... In the context of CARICOM, I have often wondered how long it would take for school book authors to be commissioned to create books available at no cost on the internet. Sure, T&T has 'free schoolbooks' - but they cost the government. What if one could reduce the cost and make the books available to anyone with a machine or access to a computer printer AND the publisher? That seems a very long way down the road. It also highlights a point: different parts of the world have different systems of education, and therefore different needs. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Coming on January 1st, 2006: http://www.OpenDepth.com "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
