On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And here in the US, the OLPC might -- hey, I said "might"! -- work to
establish an affordable, de facto EdTech standard and break schools out of
the marketing-driven/gee-whiz/gadget-minded mode that they've been in
forever.
No chance of that I'm afraid. Public school IT is driven by the
need/desire/bureaucratic pressure to go for the most expensive choices
rather than the most effective..........
And laptops are too expensive to distribute to the children living
in "third world" countries.
We're very optimistic about changing things elsewhere; why not try
to change things for the better here, too?
-- Ben
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