[OLPC-Chicago] Article: MIT Spinoff's Little Green Laptop a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village

[Neil R. Ormos]

-> MIT Spinoff's Little Green Laptop a Hit in
-> Remote Peruvian Village

-> ARAHUAY, Peru - Doubts about whether poor,
-> rural children really can benefit from quirky
-> little computers evaporate as quickly as the
-> morning dew in this hilltop Andean village,
-> where 50 primary school children got machines
-> from the One Laptop Per Child project six
-> months ago.

-> These offspring of peasant families whose
-> monthly earnings rarely exceed the cost of one
-> of the $188 laptops - people who can ill afford
-> pencil and paper much less books - can't get
-> enough of their "XO" laptops.

-> At breakfast, they're already powering up the
-> combination library/videocam/audio
-> recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night,
-> they're dozing off in front of them - if
-> they've managed to keep older siblings from
-> waylaying the coveted machines. [...]

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