Seymour Papert Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

iamreallyfree, what is the matter with you? Are you against this then? Might you suggest a better solution? Do you not realize that education may teach them more than just to keep receiving charity hand-outs for the rest of their life? And how many good teachers do you think there are in those developing countries? Why do you have to be so critical about this? I don't understand.

It´s not about having the same computers other children have, it´s about making the difference narrower and bringing them new technology which they didn´t have access to.
In Uruguay, a developing country, 260.000 children and their teachers have their laptops and now they haver a broader knowledge of what´s going on in the world at least.

Papert talked about a democratic world....what OLPC is proposing is exactly the oposite....basically underdeveloped computers for underdeveloped countries....this is only perpetuating the gap between the have and have nots...if we really talk about equity, children in developing countries have the right to have access to the same technology children in developed countries have access to.

what he said had nothing to do with OLPC...I don't think Seymour Papert would fall into the trap of promoting just one approach to use computers as school...as an educator he will know better.

Well I never !!
So it is !!
How strange :-)

a book can cost 100

this laptop cost 100 but have unlimited information in it via internet ,it is a life saver for the poor and thrist for kwodlege

the poor and thirsty need food and clothes first...they need electricity in their schools and working toilets...not computers

"iamreallyfree", this issue has been addressed by the head of OLPC more than once.

Short version: you don't -stop- trying to give kids an education, you do them all at the same time.

Form a practical point of view that approach is just not feasible. When you are facing a difficult situation like they are in developing countries, and your resources are limited, you have to decide what your priorities are. You don't really need high tech to provide a good basic education...a good teacher can just go outside the classroom and give a wonderful lesson just by encouraging children to examine and experiment with the world around them.

It is the green of OLPC.