Video featuring Nicholas Negroponte, Seymour Papert, Walter Bender on
the educational philosophy behind the One Laptop Per Child Project
(OLPC)
Negroponte:
The term computer literacy is deadly
There really is an image some people have that the children have
to learn about computers, that they have to learn about PowerPoint,
Excel because its going to help them in life and they are going to
feel "included" in some way
Which is almost tragic as a point of view because children don't
have to learn PowerPoint, they have to learn learning - and learning
learning is what OLPC is about
Bender:
The real breakthrough is the network, we are giving the children a
constant high bandwidth network to each other ...
We are building an expression machine - not just personal
expression but criticism, dialogue, collaboration
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
The long term goal is to transform school and to transform
learning - that is something that takes change across the whole of
society - we are impatient, we don't want to lose another generation
of kids
Negroponte:
Education as being an element of security - eliminating terrorism
by eliminating poverty, by eliminating the lack of communication
...
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/03/we-are-impatient-we-dont-want-to-lose.html
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