[Olpc-open] RES: Defining success

[Kevin Mark]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:43:32PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Marta Voelcker
 
> In fact, in schools where the government has stopped caring or
> assessing, the teachers actually have more leeway to bring in
> alternative methods of learning.
> 
> After six months of trying, I have yet to figure out how my six year
> old daughter and her classmates can get something like Lego or XO or
> Sugar into their classroom. This is one of the best funded public
> schools in San Francisco. Their library has shiny new Windows 7
> computers that sit idle :-(
> 
Have you tried to bring a bootable USB or CD to those machines? Do you think
there would be any obstacle to try it?

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