One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child is an initiative created to bring laptops to underprivileged children in poor areas.  Auggie expertly enlightened us on the subject during last Thursday's class.  Cheap laptops are collaboratively being created by head technical companies with wireless internet to boost the "progression" of developing communities.  In theory, laptops could "provide a means for learning, self-expression, and exploration to the nearly two billion children," as stated in the laptop-giving mission.  Visit the websites:

laptop.org <- this site is having some technical issues
www.laptopgiving.org

for more information. 

As a follow up to Auggie's recent discuss in class, I've stumbled upon this article on

Engadget

It looks like the OLPC isn't as perfect as everyone makes it sound.  If a  US State can't get wi-fi to work (not that far from civilization), how can we expect a third-world country, thousands of miles from any internet signals, figure out how to get online?

Oh, and when they do ever get online, this article states that it looks like the students are using this "means for learning and exploration" for a little more than it was intended.   Who could blame them?  A little peep show now and then on your laptop could mean the world for a pubescent teenage boy.  That's why pre-teens and teens in America usually have a monitored computer terminal growing up.  What's going to be next?  Sex education for every child?  Hmm... maybe not a bad idea.