[Grassroots-l] OLPC USA

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritiki at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>  > Even if OLPC America exists, it is doing precisely nothing. So why
>  > don't we start our own OLPC USA and get things moving?
>
>  Since cost is not as important in USA as it is in other countries, we need
>  to show substantially different outcomes comparing OLPC laptops with, say,
>  Windows XP or Apple. Americans want the best quality education at any cost.

Maine uses Apple notebooks for 7-12. They aren't nearly rugged enough,
I'm told. Breakage is reported to be a serious problem.

>  My opinion is that we need an army of anthropologists documenting everything
>  that is happening in Uruguay, Mongolia, and Peru.

And education researchers. Birmingham, Alabama, too, and Maine's program.
-- 
Edward Cherlin
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