[OLPC-Asia] [SLL:15032] [分享]如果把平板电脑放在小孩哪里，会出现什么

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:33 AM, YANG LINCHANG <linchang.yang���gmail.com>wrote:

> 各位好，看到一篇不错的文章，分享给大家
> Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction
>
> http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php
>
> What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs<http://dvice.com/archives/2012/01/one-laptop-per.php>to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five
> months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the
> security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware.
> Whoa.
>
> The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology
> and resources to schools in countries with little or no education
> infrastructure, using inexpensive computers to improve traditional
> curricula. What the OLPC Project has realized over the last five or six
> years, though, is that teaching kids *stuff* is really not that valuable.
> Yes, knowing all your state capitols how to spell "neighborhood" properly
> and whatnot isn't a bad thing, but memorizing facts and procedures isn't
> going to inspire kids to go out and learn by teaching themselves, which is
> the key to a good education. Instead, OLPC is trying to figure out a way to
> teach kids to *learn*, which is what this experiment is all about.
>
> Rather than give out laptops (they're actually Motorola Zoom tablets plus
> solar chargers running custom software) to kids in schools with teachers,
> the OLPC Project decided to try something completely different: it
> delivered some boxes of tablets to two villages in Ethiopia, taped shut,
> with no instructions whatsoever. Just like, "hey kids, here's this box, you
> can open it if you want, see ya!"
>
> Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the
> kids (and most of the adults) there *have never seen a word*. No books,
> no newspapers, no street signs, no labels on packaged foods or goods.
> Nothing. And these villages aren't unique in that respect; there are many
> of them in Africa where the literacy rate is close to zero. So you might
> think that if you're going to give out fancy tablet computers, it would be
> helpful to have someone along to show these people how to use them, right?
>
> But that's not what OLPC did. They just left the boxes there, sealed up,
> containing one tablet for every kid in each of the villages (nearly a
> thousand tablets in total), pre-loaded with a custom English-language
> operating system and SD cards with tracking software on them to record how
> the tablets were used. Here's how it went down, as related by OLPC founder
> Nicholas Negroponte at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference last week:
>
> **
>
> *"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction,
> no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four
> minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd
> never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they
> were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing
> ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had
> hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had
> disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked
> Android."*
>
> This experiment began earlier this year, and what OLPC really want to see
> is whether these kids can learn to read and write in English. Around the
> world, there are something like 100,000,000 kids who don't even make it to
> first grade, simply because there are not only no schools, but very few
> literate adults, and if it turns out that for the cost of a tablet all of
> these kids can simply teach themselves, it has huge implications for
> education. And it goes beyond the kids, too, since previous OLPC studies
> have shown that kids will use their computers to teach their *parents* to
> read and write as well, which is incredibly amazing and awesome.
>
> If this all reminds you of a certain science fiction book by a certain
> well-known author, it's not a coincidence: Nell's Primer in Neal
> Stephenson's *The Diamond Age* was a direct inspiration for much of the
> OLPC teaching software, which itself is named Nell. Here's an example of
> how Nell uses an evolving, personalized narrative to help kids learn to
> learn without beating them over the head with standardized lessons and
> traditional teaching methods:
>
> **
>
> *Miles from the nearest school, a young Ethiopian girl named Rahel turns
> on her new tablet computer. The solar powered machine speaks to her:
> "Hello! Would you like to hear a story?"
>
> She nods and listens to a story about a princess. Later, when the girl has
> learned a little more, she will tell the machine that the princess is named
> "Rahel" like she is and that she likes to wear blue--but for now the green
> book draws pictures of the unnamed Princess for her and asks her to trace
> shapes on the screen. "R is for Run. Can you trace the R?" As she traces
> the R, it comes to life and gallops across the screen. "Run starts with R.
> Roger the R runs across the Red Rug. Roger has a dog named Rover." Rover
> barks: "Ruff! Ruff!" The Princess asks, "Can you find something Red?" and
> Rahel uses the camera to photograph a berry on a nearby bush. "Good work! I
> see a little red here. Can you find something big and red?"
>
> As Rahel grows, the book asks her to trace not just letters, but whole
> words. The book's responses are written on the screen as it speaks them,
> and eventually she doesn't need to leave the sound on all the time. Soon
> Rahel can write complete sentences in her special book, and sometimes the
> Princess will respond to them. New stories teach her about music (she
> unlocks a dungeon door by playing certain tunes) and programming with
> blocks (Princess Rahel helps a not very-bright turtle to draw different
> shapes).
>
> Rahel writes her own stories about the Princess, which she shares with her
> friends. The book tells her that she is very good at music, and her lessons
> begin to encourage her to invent silly songs about what she's learning. An
> older Rahel learns that the block language she used to talk with the turtle
> is also used to write all the software running inside her special book.
> Rahel uses the blocks to write a new sort of rhythm game. Her younger
> brother has just received his own green book, and Rahel writes him a story
> which uses her rhythm game to help him learn to count.
> *
>
> Read more about Nell in this paper<http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/idc2012.pdf>,
> and if you haven't read *The Diamond Age*, do so at once.
>
> Via MIT<http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/>
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