[OLPC India] Let them have laptops

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:53:53PM +0100, Marc Valentin wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 8:22 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> > For my part, I am bring two XOs to India in March hoping to drum up
> > interest.
> 
> I will be in India in March with 8 XO and 2 EeePC.
> Later, I will share my experience. Please do the same. In which area
> are you going ?

My wife and I own a private school in Nashik, Maharashtra.

I would also like to respond to your other message. Here is what I 
imagine will happen with the laptops. I will give them to my daughter (3 
1/2) and my nephew (6). I will encourage them to teach our school kids 
something about how to use them. Probably the most popular application 
will be the camera and sharing photos. However, I also expect them to 
play with the speech synthesis, tamtam, and measure. Certainly I don't 
think it is necessary to teach normal computer tasks like web browsing 
and word processing so early. It will probably take a years before 
anybody will try to understand SimCity even.

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