[OLPC India] Thanks for Khairat visit

[Pari]

Hi 

Some of us had a chance to visit the project at Khairat.  Thanks Amit and
Mukesh, for making this possible!  It's always a fabulous learning
experience to be with rural Indian children.  

 

Here's just one striking finding I'd like to share on this list -  the
school teacher, in this single room, single teacher, multigrade rural
school, reports not a single hardware or software breakdown Sept 2007-Feb
2008 in any of the 22 XOs given to the children.  As of now, this is not
trivial information about a children's machine in tropical, dusty
environments and a project that hopes for large scale implementation.  (Ps:
the children reportedly carry the XOs back and forth from school to home
everyday and continue chat with each other from home over the mesh network).


 

There seem to be, to my mind, a number of other challenges to the project -
pedagogical, social, technical, and administrative.  I will be curious to
know the findings from Reliance/OLPC as they become available.   

 

regards,

Parimala Inamdar

Cell: 9820314308 

 

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