On Dec 1, 2007 11:00 PM, tall897 <<a href="mailto:tall897@gmail.com">tall897@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
...that there is no evidence that spending huge sums on computers for school children has any positive effect on their learning.</blockquote><div><br>Sure there is. The one-to-one program in Maine has widely been touted as a success. Repeated trials in the field these last months have been a success. The consumer computer experiments, that Negroponte, Papert and others have conducted over the years and decades (and frequently cited in OLPC-related presentations).
<br><br>One-to-one laptop deployments are quite effective at making smarter students, especially if the program is done right.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab