[OLPC-SF] This may be a better query than the one I just sent? What happened to OLPC at Kanda Primary #5 - rewritten 6/16/13 By George Pope The 40 computer OLPC program at Kanda Primary No 5 was activated about 2007 or 8. The Kanda School Cluster has 1100 students. Children took turns taking there computers to the back of the class to the cables hook up for collaborative learning - problem solving projects. Thus during the week each student could have been on line with his or her peers for only a fraction of the time. This was contrary to the prescribed OLPC teaching set up. XOs are supposed to be linked wirelessly during the school week both on campus and in small neighborhood local area networks. Both on line student collaboration and student XO possession are “fundamental planks” of the program. Kanda's cable server once went missing for a couple of months. Later it was “found” in a government repair shop. The Kanda OLPC project was recently abandoned and the 7 year old computers were given

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