[Olpc-open] How will the OLPC truly help education?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Nov 19, 2006, at 1:07 , Henry Skelton wrote:

> Now that is certainly nice, but how is it better than regular books?

Do regular books come with unlimited supply of paper and color pens?  
With scissors and glue to make your own collages? There is a whole  
lot of infrastructure that we take for granted in our schools, which  
is just not the case everywhere.

In addition, computers with the right software offer a *lot* more  
than regular books. Take a peek at what happens with 80,000 computers  
running Squeak/Etoys on Linux in one of the poorest regions of Spain:

	http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/

Etoys is included in the OLPC software:

	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys

- Bert -