One Laptop Per Child pledge

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Wed May 31 08:39:00 EDT 2006


On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:08:01PM -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
> > Please go see "reader Rabbit" or "Math Blaster" in action with kids
> > who are in Kindergarten through fourth grade.  Then it will be clear to
> > you.
> 
> Right on Jeff.  My daughter loved Reader Rabbit.  I credit Reader
> Rabbit and Harry Potter between them  for my daughter being literate.

You have to give her parents and teachers some credit too. :)

> 
> Of course, this is the daughter that likes Windows XP Home and fills
> the harddrive with WMA soundfiles to my shame, so there is a downside
> to Reader Rabbit. Which would be solved by the $100 laptop, no MS
> Windows ...

You could run reader rabbit under wine, but then the wma files might
work too.........  :)


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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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