OLPC ($100 "laptop") FAQ

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue May 30 19:33:15 EDT 2006


On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
>>    And here in the US, the OLPC might -- hey, I said "might"! -- work to
>> establish an affordable, de facto EdTech standard and break schools out of
>> the marketing-driven/gee-whiz/gadget-minded mode that they've been in
>> forever.
>
> No chance of that I'm afraid.  Public school IT is driven by the
> need/desire/bureaucratic pressure to go for the most expensive choices
> rather than the most effective..........

  And laptops are too expensive to distribute to the children living
in "third world" countries.

  We're very optimistic about changing things elsewhere; why not try
to change things for the better here, too?

-- Ben



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