Hi, just wanted to say that i was there in Geneva at the Lift conference at Sugata Mitra's talk. I was filming video interviews for http://techvideoblog.com/category/lift/ I remember I approached Sugata Mitra after his talk to ask him what he thought about the OLPC project. I am not sure I understood what he had to say about OLPC or perhaps I just don't remember it clearly. But I think he wasn't totally enthusiastic about OLPC which I thought was weird.
But I guess that he is researching some other angle on the problem. Anyways, I hoe that with Obama that OLPC can hurry up and fix all the worlds problems. Cause the Children are growing older without a much better education system that they deserve. And I am thinking the problem is not only in poor countries, although their problem obvisously is the biggest, I think that all Children in all countries are waiting for the school system to be made better. And that I think is using computers and the Internet in a clever way. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Just saw Sugata Mitra's talk at Lift (http://liftconference.com/) on > the hole-in-the-wall experiment and the data they collected. Most > impressive was the concept of self-organized learning that happened in > these places. > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html > It goes against all the talk about teacher training, etc. > > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > -- Charbax, Nicolas Charbonnier
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