On Nov 29, 2006, at 16:06 , Tom Hoffman wrote: > On 11/29/06, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote: >> >>> I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy, but a toy for the >>> wrong follks, folks who have enough toys, rooms full of them, >>> lost in >>> their toys, blinking and whizzing hynoptic. >> >> Would you agree that the software (and not the greenish toy-like >> hardware) would make all the difference between that little machine >> being a toy and it being a serious platform for education? Why, then, >> are so few folks working on actual educational software for it? So >> far, you can count the specifically educational activities on the >> OLPC on one hand. Even if you lost most fingers. > > I would point out that writing educational software for people who > don't have computers isn't very useful either, and that once kids have > computers (on a common, free platform) there's a lot more incentive to > write educational software for them.
Exactly my reasoning - OLPC is going to be a common, free platform, so it should be plenty of incentive. Yet, little is happening. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
