Hackaday reports on teacher-less deployment. Hadn't heard this was
already out there, my apologies to all who knew this was an old thing.
Apparently 6 months already?
Anybody here connected with this deployment?
On 10/31/2012 03:02 PM, Hack a Day wrote:
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Mike Szczys posted: " We don't remember hearing about the One Laptop
Per Child initiative distributing tablet computers but apparently a
couple of shipments were distributed to rural communities in Ethiopia.
The problem one might think of in this scenario is that the liter"
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OLPC tablet distribution proves concepts laid out in ‘The
Diamond Age’
<http://hackaday.com/2012/10/31/olpc-tablet-distribution-proves-concepts-laid-out-in-the-diamond-age/>
by Mike Szczys <http://hackaday.com/author/mikehackaday/>
We don't remember hearing about the One Laptop Per Child initiative
distributing tablet computers but apparently a couple of shipments
were distributed to rural communities in Ethiopia
<http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/>.
The problem one might think of in this scenario is that the literacy
rate in the two test villages was basically zero. But that's exactly
the population targeted with thr technology. The tablets were loaded
with a software package called Nell. It was designed to guide a child
in self learning by telling them engaging stories that include
teachable moments. If you check out the white paper
<http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/idc2012.pdf> (PDF) you'll find
it's pretty much the exact same teaching technique that [Neal
Stephenson] wrote about in his book /The Diamond Age/. But keep
reading that paper and you'll see that this is because the researchers
took their inspiration from that very novel.
Well the results are in and apparently [Neal] knows exactly what he is
talking about. Not only did the children learn from the software, but
within five months they were hacking the device (which runs Android)
to get the disabled camera working.
[Thanks Alexander via Dvice
<http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php>]
*Mike Szczys <http://hackaday.com/author/mikehackaday/>* | October 31,
2012 at 1:01 pm | Tags: neal stephenson
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<http://hackaday.com/?tag=nell>, olpc <http://hackaday.com/?tag=olpc>,
tablet <http://hackaday.com/?tag=tablet>, the diamond age
<http://hackaday.com/?tag=the-diamond-age> | Categories: lifehacks
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