[ale] Uruguay beats us. Laptop for every child

[William Fragakis]

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 12:22 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Kind of like teaching "Drivers Ed" at school. Do you want the kids to
> learn to _drive_ or learn to drive Ford Escorts.
snippage of stuf I agree with

> It's nice to hear about another school and the same process being
> fought and won.
> 
> Total World Domination one school at a time!
In this case, one country at a time. It wasn't a school in Uruguay. It
was the entire country. In the meanwhile, we have computer labs because
we can't give every kid their own computer.

wf

> 
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> > Running Sugar.
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8309583.stm
> >
> > '"We have a lady who's been teaching for 30 years and when they gave us
> > the computers and the training, she asked for leave because she didn't
> > want to have anything to do with the programme. Later she changed her
> > mind and now computers have changed the way she teaches."'
> >
> > 'The laptops have an open source Linux operating system with a user
> > interface called Sugar. It has attracted some criticism from detractors
> > for not being mainstream.
> >
> > 'However Mr Brechner believes that children should learn computer skills
> > regardless of the software available. Blind children were being taught
> > on a Microsoft Windows operating system, he said. '
> >
> > Exactly what Daniel Howard and I saw when we introduced K12LTSP at
> > Brandon Elementary.
> >
> > wf
> >
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