On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Am 10.06.2010 21:38, schrieb Daniel Drake:
>> On 10 June 2010 16:13, Christoph Derndorfer
>> <e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>> I hate to play devil's advocate here (naaa, not really;-) but one might
>>> argue that based on what little we know about OLPC in Peru, arguably the
>>> 2nd largest OLPC / Sugar project at the moment, this ("simply passing
>>> out XOs and getting out of children’s way.") is pretty much exactly what
>>> seems to be happening.
>>
>> While the deployment info is less public (and less publicized?) than
>> most, and while like any deployment it faces a fair share of
>> challenges and difficulties, it's not like this.
>
> Glad to hear you're getting a good hands-on impression down there! :-)
>
> Out of curiosity: Which provinces are you visiting?
>
> From the information that I've gathered from Oscar Becerra, last year's
> interns and a researcher who spent several weeks in the Ancash area in
> 2008 and 2009 the difficulties that the project faces in Peru seem to be
> quite a bit more extensive than in other countries. Two of the most
> striking examples I've heard are that it often seems to take up to 3
> months for broken XOs to be repaired and that between 2008 and 2009 30%
> of the teachers in one province dropped out and their replacements
> didn't receive any XO / Sugar teacher training whatsoever.Harsh realities intervene with best intentions, but to suggest that Peru or any other OLPC deployment is 'dump and run' as Warschauer suggests is misleading at best. -walter > But then again, I should have a clearer understanding of realities on > the ground once I arrive in Lima in early August;-) > > Christoph, > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > co-editor, www.olpcnews.com > e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
