[Sur] [support-gang] Bad article in Economist on OLPC Peru

Mar Abr 10 11:09:59 EDT 2012

We met with Julian Christa who ran the research in Peru, and quite the
contrary was veryoptimistic about the results. If you read the whole paper
you will find signficant changes in Language Arts!! eventhough their
deployment was not propoerly done as it was done in PY. Come and see us!!
There is no point in discussin what our countries should be doing in teh
area of Technology...we might discuss "how" to do it....but 1:1 and Sugar
is on the "boat"...te guste o no te guste como decimos en español. Pacita

2012/4/10 Walter Bender <walter.bender en gmail.com>

> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Caryl Bigenho <caryl en laptop.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, what they say is pretty valid. Lack of proper training of
> the
> > teachers (spend some money on it, for heavens sake!) and community
> > involvement (they turned down lots of offers when they were starting up)
> > have pretty much doomed this to near failure.  Add to that the recent
> > warehouse fire that destroyed 10s of thousands of brand new XOs slated
> to go
> > to the rural children in Amazonas... a double tragedy.
>
> Perhaps is it too much to ask people to read the report itself, and
> not just the Economic summary. I recommend this alternative reading:
>
>
> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Mobility-Matters/Is-OLPC-failing-Or-is-it-The-Economist/ba-p/2562
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
> >
> > Contrast that with Uruguay where there is strong teacher, parent and
> > community involvement.  It is not OLPC's fault things are not going
> well, it
> > is the politicians and top educational administrators who think they know
> > everything. They don't.
> >
> > Caryl
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:04:25 -0400
> >> From: sj en laptop.org
> >> To: support-gang en lists.laptop.org
> >> CC: support-gang en laptop.org
> >> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Bad article in Economist on OLPC Peru
> >>
> >> Yes, Rodrigo is writing one...
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Alan Claver <alc en psu.edu> wrote:
> >> > Here's the article (I don't care to give them any page views so "Fair
> >> > Use"). The limited comments in the article (as well as my original
> source
> >> > for the link - http://www.economist.com/node/21552202) were all in
> >> > agreement. No positive comments.
> >> >
> >> > Hope someone is planning on some sort of response.
> >> >
> >> > Here's the URL if you disagree:
> http://www.economist.com/node/21552202
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Education in Peru
> >> >
> >> > Error message
> >> >
> >> > A disappointing return from an investment in computing
> >> >
> >> > Apr 7th 2012 | LIMA | from the print edition
> >> >
> >> > GIVING a child a computer does not seem to turn him or her into a
> future
> >> > Bill Gates—indeed it does not accomplish anything in particular. That
> is the
> >> > conclusion from Peru, site of the largest single programme involving
> One
> >> > Laptop per Child, an American charity with backers from the computer
> >> > industry and which is active in more than 30 developing countries
> around the
> >> > world.
> >> >
> >> > Peru is enjoying an economic boom, but has one of Latin America’s
> worst
> >> > education systems. Flush with mining revenues, the previous government
> >> > embraced the laptop initiative. It spent $225m to supply and support
> 850,000
> >> > basic laptops to schools throughout the country. But Peruvians’ test
> scores
> >> > remain dismal. Only 13% of seven-year-olds were at the required level
> in
> >> > maths and only 30% in reading, the education ministry reported last
> month.
> >> >
> >> > An evaluation
> >> > (
> http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=IDB-WP-304
> )
> >> > of the laptop programme by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
> found
> >> > that the children receiving the computers did not show any
> improvement in
> >> > maths or reading. Nor did it find evidence that access to a laptop
> increased
> >> > motivation, or time devoted to homework or reading. The report
> applauded the
> >> > government for providing much-needed hardware: less than a quarter of
> >> > Peruvian households had a computer in 2010. But it now needs to
> improve
> >> > teacher-training and the curriculum, said Julian Cristia of the IDB.
> Above
> >> > all, the classroom environment needs to change.
> >> >
> >> > Part of the problem is that students learn faster than many of their
> >> > teachers, according to Lily Miranda, who runs a computer lab at a
> state
> >> > school in San Borja, a middle-class area of Lima. Sandro Marcone, who
> is in
> >> > charge of educational technologies at the ministry, agrees. “If
> teachers are
> >> > telling kids to turn on computers and copy what is being written on
> the
> >> > blackboard, then we have invested in expensive notebooks,” he said. It
> >> > certainly looks like that.
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