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im currently doing a research project for school and a small section of it is concerned with the digital divide. While doing it i remembered this video haha. Thanks Rocketboom for giving me something interesting to write about ^_^
don't be dumb. food and water are only expensive short term fixes. you never heard the parable about teaching a man to fish? i wouldn't be surprised if these kids were more educated than you.
still, I don't see how giving kids laptops will benefit them. I believe it would be a better idea to spend the money on something that would actually be useful. i.e. textbooks, better classrooms, pencils, pens, sports equipment, and books. instead of giving children laptops with extremely basic programs that wont teach them anything. Africa has many problems that they should deal with before they should start buying laptops.
It's a complete screwup. The machines are not useful for anything other than very basic interaction; consider it to be "My First Computer".
Now there'd be nothing wrong with that if Kenya had a real *IT infrastructure*. But they don't outside of the cities. This means kids are wasting their time learning things that don't immediately benefit the community around them.
We need to do not try. We have the ability to help these countries but we avoid it, not due to cost I suspect
those children need better classrooms, maybe a few computers to share, they need more school supplies, larger school houses, calculators, text books, balanced meals, they don't need camera's and painting devices and machines that make cow noises when you click on the cow, at 180USD ea
ridiculous, they're just buying lots of shiny new gadgets (or having them brought for them). They aren't really doing anything to significantly improve the quality of education
I've been considering buying a couple of those XO's. The program is great: you buy one for your kid and the company donates one. You can buy one for donation as well and they'll match that. I think this video made the decision for me.
The only long term solution to solving the real problems around the world are to give the people with the problems tools to create their own solutions.
The bad thing, is that in a lot of kids, that's true. They don't know how to socialize with real people. They can't spell. They can't write.
Recently a journalist student wrote a real good article in the University paper on how we've actually "dummied" ourselves down with technology. Using u r, brb, sol, etc. instead of spelling words because we're lazy, using spell check and not bothering to actually learn how to spell, etc.
@NotaBeetleFan Judging by your name, I assume you enjoy always being against popular things. I adore grammar, and I deplore today's way of writing with the aid of technology just as much as you do. But as long as these children continue caring more about learning, and don't drift onto nonsensical websites and change their priorities, they'll stay true to writing well and good. Plus, I really doubt they'd even think it was appropriate to write like that.
idiot, you dont understand the problem of 'giving them food'. if you want reasons as to why computers beat direct food supplies, ill happily provide you a list of good reasons.
They'll make money. Yeah, like the Nigerian scam. Go on webs cut and paste beautiful pics of girls, get some idiot American guy to think HE is a "she" and cry that they need money...Idiot American sends Credit card money or other methods, cry some more, more money....
How about teach the kids to grown crops and clean the water and set up cleaner methods to clean area and reduce disease? Computers are ok, but take loads of petrol products and water to make them and is hard on environment.
No, actually. She just has a very clear English accent, and there was no reason for her to be subtitled.
There was someone else that wasn't subtitled that probably should have been, however. But it's insulting to the young girl who spoke like any elementary school girl from the States.
Haha, as a born and raised New Yorker, you are speaking to the wrong part of America. Maybe people don't speak normal in your backwaters-incest-ridden GED school, but as for the parts of America where education is /actually/ important, she speaks perfectly fine and does not need subtitles.
Maybe you are just racist? I think that sounds more likely.
You say this as if it gave you credibility. Simply hilarious. This is what happens when people grow up in New York; they believe the world revolves around them. Thanks for the lulz and ad hominem attacks. Your attempt at argumentation has failed before you even made a point. ^L^
how is it people are making such an effort to get kids laptops that some one has already said how practical is this when the probably wont use or need them over the course of there adult life but children are still not in school... not eating... don't have close... I'm just sayin.
It's a really nice gesture, but is it really practical? Most of these children probably don't live in countries where the economy is such that they can obtain jobs that require the use of computers. It seems to me that things like this are giving the children false ideals of their futures, like what's happening in Papua New Guinea
amazing what we take for granted on a day to day basis is such a treasure item some where else! great story, great look into the world outside our borders. good to help people expand their vision of this world
Most black people including me don't give a shit about reparations. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if most young Americans don't even know about slavery.
1:40 OMG OMG ALIEN ALIEN
cukrius 1 year ago
good job!
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freelaptop1234 2 years ago
Head of Imani Primary is right. Geeze, she's like that pelvis-faced guy from Mask.
Gammaclipper 2 years ago
im currently doing a research project for school and a small section of it is concerned with the digital divide. While doing it i remembered this video haha. Thanks Rocketboom for giving me something interesting to write about ^_^
TehBryMan 2 years ago
what the fuck was that at the end of the video?hahahahahahaha
greer1683 2 years ago
It was an albino woman. Also, Muslims in Kenya are known for killing albino's, because they think that their bones have powerful magic within them.
Glorthac 2 years ago 2
Wrong country. Tanzania and not Muslims do that. Its ppl who believe in witchcraft
MTOTOwaNYAYO 2 years ago
1:43 We have made contact.
igykalen 2 years ago 11
That little girl was so cute!
Omniofaco 2 years ago 9
.___. wow.... mmkay....
Fyrsiel 2 years ago
what disease is 1:33?
MADE1NVIETNAM 2 years ago
Doom!!!!!
Mobbymick 2 years ago
Every child that needs a computer or wants one should have one, free of cost...theres no reason for that not happening
TarjaTurunen1Fan 2 years ago
WTF was on 1:33
Chuvil 2 years ago
A monster! I was scared 2.
Iheartkrotus 2 years ago
Thats totally uncalled for...you should be ashamed of yourself
TarjaTurunen1Fan 2 years ago
SHE IS UPSIDE DOWN!
skurmjolk 2 years ago
what´s up with that lady!?
Froyle 2 years ago
soon they will be like us... always facebooking and tweeting and socialising. I dont wanna be mean but what with the chick at 1:40
Klukie1994 2 years ago
she's an albino i think.... so she has african facial features but pale skin. i think it's pretty common among africans.
dota465 2 years ago
this is marvelous.
nomiSimple 2 years ago
Improve their writing and drawing skills?! How about a pencil and paper?? I'm not sure this program is as beneficial as it's made out to be...
spunkypuppy 2 years ago
so cool to see those laptops in action
GaddingImp 2 years ago
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Raskolnikov32 2 years ago
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Secret1337 2 years ago
Oh, wait, yeah she does,
I thought you meant Molly o.o
Secret1337 2 years ago
what you choose to focus on is telling of your stupidity.
GaddingImp 2 years ago
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Raskolnikov32 2 years ago
wow!
proceedapathy 2 years ago
I believe that is truly an extra terrestrial life form that has stolen the voice box of a victim human at 1:40 .
Skwerl132 2 years ago
yay Dutch!
Ins0mnia365 2 years ago
wow, so instead of spending money on food and water. they waste money on useless laptops?
what
the
fuck.
muffinman127 2 years ago
don't be dumb. food and water are only expensive short term fixes. you never heard the parable about teaching a man to fish? i wouldn't be surprised if these kids were more educated than you.
GaddingImp 2 years ago
still, I don't see how giving kids laptops will benefit them. I believe it would be a better idea to spend the money on something that would actually be useful. i.e. textbooks, better classrooms, pencils, pens, sports equipment, and books. instead of giving children laptops with extremely basic programs that wont teach them anything. Africa has many problems that they should deal with before they should start buying laptops.
muffinman127 2 years ago
they don't need textbooks, pencils, pens when they have internet ready laptops that will last much longer.
also, these XO laptops were donated.
GaddingImp 2 years ago
Kill me, NOW.
That woman is eighter a surperior lifeform or has her genes scrabled like like eggs in an omlette....
PS. I dont like the activity of painting.
Baltican 2 years ago
I WTF'D hard looking at her face on 1:40
AllYourCake 2 years ago
OLPC == FAIL
It's a complete screwup. The machines are not useful for anything other than very basic interaction; consider it to be "My First Computer".
Now there'd be nothing wrong with that if Kenya had a real *IT infrastructure*. But they don't outside of the cities. This means kids are wasting their time learning things that don't immediately benefit the community around them.
We need to do not try. We have the ability to help these countries but we avoid it, not due to cost I suspect
TheGeekNProud 2 years ago
the most useless waste of money.
those children need better classrooms, maybe a few computers to share, they need more school supplies, larger school houses, calculators, text books, balanced meals, they don't need camera's and painting devices and machines that make cow noises when you click on the cow, at 180USD ea
ridiculous, they're just buying lots of shiny new gadgets (or having them brought for them). They aren't really doing anything to significantly improve the quality of education
Kurushimus 2 years ago 2
she likes the activity of painting!
Tripp393 2 years ago
Hey, its dutch!
yoursisterinlaw 2 years ago
this was originally supposed to be a $100 laptop... the price is a little off...
triforcelink 2 years ago
I've been considering buying a couple of those XO's. The program is great: you buy one for your kid and the company donates one. You can buy one for donation as well and they'll match that. I think this video made the decision for me.
The only long term solution to solving the real problems around the world are to give the people with the problems tools to create their own solutions.
Bravo XO.
Thanks Rocketboom!
SpdrMnky 2 years ago 2
yea sure let machine teach kids how to behave and what to learn,next thing you know youl end up with brainwashed kid who never use their creativity!
maevista 2 years ago
The bad thing, is that in a lot of kids, that's true. They don't know how to socialize with real people. They can't spell. They can't write.
Recently a journalist student wrote a real good article in the University paper on how we've actually "dummied" ourselves down with technology. Using u r, brb, sol, etc. instead of spelling words because we're lazy, using spell check and not bothering to actually learn how to spell, etc.
Ever talk to someone, and say out loud, "LOL!"
NotaBeetleFan 2 years ago
@NotaBeetleFan Judging by your name, I assume you enjoy always being against popular things. I adore grammar, and I deplore today's way of writing with the aid of technology just as much as you do. But as long as these children continue caring more about learning, and don't drift onto nonsensical websites and change their priorities, they'll stay true to writing well and good. Plus, I really doubt they'd even think it was appropriate to write like that.
goldenresidueofbliss 1 year ago
this is so stupid... there are lots of persons dying in Africa every day and instead of food they give them computers?
dangerosking 2 years ago
idiot, you dont understand the problem of 'giving them food'. if you want reasons as to why computers beat direct food supplies, ill happily provide you a list of good reasons.
sinprelic 2 years ago
provide me with the list then
dangerosking 2 years ago
I guarantee that the teacher lady at the end there has telekinesis or some other form of psionics
sharethispoison7 2 years ago
Very cool.
lansop 2 years ago
1:40 what is that thing? o_O
SteffyTheCat 2 years ago
Yeh, i was like... WTF...
but i think its awesome children are using laptops n shit... soon well get youtube vids from Kenyakid357 (joke)
dash605 2 years ago
Haha..I don't think you can go on net with that PC, and i don't even think they have internet in Kenya lol
SteffyTheCat 2 years ago
It depends on where you go. They do have internet in cities and towns, but usually not in rural areas.
beforebabycheeks 2 years ago
They'll make money. Yeah, like the Nigerian scam. Go on webs cut and paste beautiful pics of girls, get some idiot American guy to think HE is a "she" and cry that they need money...Idiot American sends Credit card money or other methods, cry some more, more money....
How about teach the kids to grown crops and clean the water and set up cleaner methods to clean area and reduce disease? Computers are ok, but take loads of petrol products and water to make them and is hard on environment.
NotaBeetleFan 2 years ago
it's ET's mom, i think.
yoursisterinlaw 2 years ago
Real intelligent. I think that word would be more appropriate used describing yourself Duirward...considering its actual definition.
FelzWelz 2 years ago
Thats cool that they computers for the children but that teacher freaked me out.
oneinter 2 years ago
How cool is this!!?
Interesting a child in Kenya is learning English
Nirdjha 2 years ago
Almost everyone in Kenya speaks English.
beforebabycheeks 2 years ago
gr8 idea but what the heck no interweb?!
TheCharleycat 2 years ago
one to one laptop programme = more trolls on youtube?
yoshinibble123 2 years ago
I find it funny how the reporter in the beginning stutters a lot
SPHChow 2 years ago
WOW! didint see that comin
yellowpowwer 2 years ago 3
AIDS
SunMan6A6 2 years ago
AIDS? Are you fucking kidding? Aids may be a problem, but what that the point of this video? No so STFU
merowlar 2 years ago
AIDS D;
SunMan6A6 2 years ago
Klingons :O 1:43
triplm51545 2 years ago 2
I could play golf on her forehead.
HumanStrategy 2 years ago 2
that was really scary...
alexander255110 2 years ago 3
More like its Roger from American Dad LOL
segedinacm 2 years ago
The goldmine that is Rocketboom "fan" comments, ladies and gentlemen.
AARONMACKENZIE 2 years ago
Why was the one girl given subtitled? She speaks more clearly than most of the people that I talk to on a daily basis.
Otakkun 2 years ago
You must hang around ESL students or non-natives then^^
HumanStrategy 2 years ago
No, actually. She just has a very clear English accent, and there was no reason for her to be subtitled.
There was someone else that wasn't subtitled that probably should have been, however. But it's insulting to the young girl who spoke like any elementary school girl from the States.
Otakkun 2 years ago
"But it's insulting to the young girl who spoke like any elementary school girl from the States."
Umm no. Elementary schools students in the US do not speak like here. You must be new to American accents. She sounds nothing like an American kid.
You're are simply ignorant.
HumanStrategy 2 years ago 2
Haha, as a born and raised New Yorker, you are speaking to the wrong part of America. Maybe people don't speak normal in your backwaters-incest-ridden GED school, but as for the parts of America where education is /actually/ important, she speaks perfectly fine and does not need subtitles.
Maybe you are just racist? I think that sounds more likely.
Otakkun 2 years ago
"as a born and raised New Yorker"
You say this as if it gave you credibility. Simply hilarious. This is what happens when people grow up in New York; they believe the world revolves around them. Thanks for the lulz and ad hominem attacks. Your attempt at argumentation has failed before you even made a point. ^L^
HumanStrategy 2 years ago 2
"You're are simply ignorant"?
Anyway, she spoke clearly enough not to need subtitles, regardless of her accent.
beforebabycheeks 2 years ago 3
how is it people are making such an effort to get kids laptops that some one has already said how practical is this when the probably wont use or need them over the course of there adult life but children are still not in school... not eating... don't have close... I'm just sayin.
itsmemanduh 2 years ago
huh? these kids were not in school?? where were they? in a dump, trying to find food??
maybe, just maybe, you should watch a little less of reports from World Vision or other NGOs of the like
I'm not saying everything's fine in Africa, far from it, but most children don't die of starving...
Tamerplane 2 years ago
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jesus loves them little niggers.
robinsoncrucify 2 years ago
dude.
fuck you.
CooperLordOfAll 2 years ago 2
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tits or gtfo
robinsoncrucify 2 years ago
It's a really nice gesture, but is it really practical? Most of these children probably don't live in countries where the economy is such that they can obtain jobs that require the use of computers. It seems to me that things like this are giving the children false ideals of their futures, like what's happening in Papua New Guinea
Piggie66 2 years ago
What the fuck happened to her?! (1:42)
TheLonelyImmortal 2 years ago
I think she's albinistic
zet168 2 years ago
Um, its something called... having a health condition not from the ordinary?
but seriously, she may just have a mild case of downsymdrome.
DeRealUno 2 years ago
and vitiligo...
DeRealUno 2 years ago
HOLT SH**
No wonder they call her THE HEAD of Imani republic.
vrfl 2 years ago 3
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DeRealUno 2 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAH!
maevista 2 years ago
Dude, for real.
vrfl 2 years ago
the story is nice. but that lady's head... i'm sorry.
EverybodyLovesRamen 2 years ago
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DeRealUno 2 years ago
we all know they use it to watch porn...
CradLeRcker 2 years ago
rofl probably
MagicalMustard 2 years ago
dont let them go to the internet.
SeuiJaii 2 years ago
i kno this is terrible to saw
but that head was really fucked up...:)
amishbros 2 years ago
It really is great, that they now are bringing new technology to help schools.
AjikanPanda 2 years ago
amazing what we take for granted on a day to day basis is such a treasure item some where else! great story, great look into the world outside our borders. good to help people expand their vision of this world
themightythor1212 2 years ago
in one of rocketbooms previous videos(not to long ago) some hippies living on a boat had a few of those XO computers ://
defect530 2 years ago
They should do a swimsuit calendar with all the ladies from ROCKETBOOM. I would totally buy that :D
VagianTuerous 2 years ago
ARGH my young virgin eyes
Erikyuby 2 years ago
Kenya needs to prepare more children for its secondary educational system. Computer skills will help.
httprover 2 years ago
it's amazing that the little girl can speak english yet the narrator cant....
musikmakerfan 2 years ago 2
Well he probably didn't have a lime green laptop when he was younger.
MasterShrub 2 years ago 2
your right... yet he's being a reporter for a british news broadcast. they grow up so fast. :')
musikmakerfan 2 years ago
hmm, you sure could program the future generation
skel8tor 2 years ago
I LIKE THE ACTIVITY OF PAINTING :)
Mandalorx10 2 years ago 4
Hey, me too. ;-)
NotaBeetleFan 2 years ago
XO
...
LinuxUser4Life 2 years ago 2
Headshot, easy mode.
teo64x 2 years ago 2
What the hell is that thing on 2:31
BranFlicks 2 years ago
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i dont have a fucking laptop thats soo racist... i dont get a free laptop because im white
TobyW360 2 years ago
You don't get one because you're a whiny little bitch.
jacob69tcmfwel 2 years ago 7
thats what black people who think that the us gov owes them reperations for slavery are..
TobyW360 2 years ago
unrelated but true i guess...also, ▲
▲ ▲
jacob69tcmfwel 2 years ago
newforce cant trifag
TobyW360 2 years ago 2
Most black people including me don't give a shit about reparations. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if most young Americans don't even know about slavery.
zet168 2 years ago 3
In highschool? Wow, that's..
Dude, it's school. You don't watch porn IN school!
Smartboy7 2 years ago
HOLY FUCK THAT HEAD
j0rdanimal 2 years ago
I KNOW!
falafel1995 2 years ago
Holy shit her forehead its over 9000!!!!!
Ervine4 2 years ago
...Ew.
Kindofshyness 2 years ago
1:38 !!!!!
???????? wat
ThisIsCleverUsername 2 years ago
you dont need a $180 piece of equipment to draw or recite your name for you... but w/e i guess they can learn to type
anryth 2 years ago 3
But what can they do with this knowledge? What can they achieve?
Do they need it?
Smartboy7 2 years ago
nothing
nothing
and no
anryth 2 years ago
english or aussie???
simonkrk 2 years ago
OMG sorry but that lady startled me a little oO
AnimenerdMuffin 2 years ago 2
HOLY fucking shit .. that woman scared the living shit out of me O_o
En waarom is dit weer in het nederlands man.
Ik haat nederlands :p
Vleesball 2 years ago
The word news meens new so how can you have old news =] and oh well
ajc116 2 years ago
Wow Thats cool!!! :)
OneEyeJay 2 years ago
Old news is old.
Vote for Bub and Bob!
icegryphon 2 years ago
FUCK YEAH! Samus needs to get back to the kitchen!
southparkgtaca 2 years ago
yawn
thebober10 2 years ago
2nd Comment Note: My laptop is better.
GodLikeSkillz89 2 years ago
At 1:39, is she from Star Wars?!
Namguin 2 years ago 3
Yeah I wouldn't be suprised if I saw ''her" hanging out in Jabbas layer
nsduo 2 years ago
LOL
Namguin 2 years ago
i doubt its a she, maybe its a shapeshifter, god knows
lexmark2300 2 years ago
lol thats mean, HAHAHA it made my day.
calito0010 2 years ago
albino
qluelezzz 2 years ago
This is old news
bhz10 2 years ago 5
this is great :D
IcanhasKebab 2 years ago