Bill Kerr provides a link to a video, some transcripts and discussion. The topic is the One Laptop Per Child project and the pedagogy behind it.
Bill Kerr: “we are impatient, we don’t want to lose another generation of kids”
The most subversive thing on the software front is the ebook reader as a wiki – you get the world’s literature – some of it’s great and some of it’s not – then two things happen:
* every page in every book has a discussion thread
* every page in every book can be augmented, changed and illustrated
Apart from all the ideas about learning, I noticed that one of the technical properties of the OLPC hardware is a screen that stays bright and readable even in bright sunshine. Now that’s something which would be appreciated if incorporated into the laptops used by anybody who likes to work from their own back garden sometimes.
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The OLPC project seems to have a lot of innovative things going for it – well worth spending some time learning more about.
Incidentally, the new Apple iPhone is meant to have a similar ambient-light detecting and adjusting display screen.