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The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child
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20 Jun 08
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Takuya Hommait's still not known whether this project is good or bad for society. children might get very interested in and improve education or few companies just may dominate the market and this project might end up like a business failure.
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Yet even as the students enjoyed one of the biggest thrills of their lives, the organization behind the computers, One Laptop per Child, was in danger of cracking.
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The group's struggles show how hard it is for a nonprofit made up largely of academics to operate like a business and compete with powerful companies.
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A chastened Negroponte no longer predicts mass adoption in short order, but he remains confident that OLPC can have a major impact. He sees it playing the role in computer-aided learning that Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank has had in the global spread of microcredit. Grameen started something that many others now practice. "We're not building an empire. We're building a movement," Negroponte says.
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Papert, now retired, developed a theory called Constructionism, which posits that young children learn best by doing rather than by being lectured to.
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Some observers accuse OLPC of cultural imperialism. "It's arrogant of them. You can't just stampede into a country's education system and say, Here's the way to do it,'" says William Easterly, a professor at New York University and author of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.
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15 Jun 08
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