i want to give poor children computers and walk away
Nicholas negomante asked, \"Airborne\" through the Vijaysree VenkatramanCan tablet to remote areas, changing the learning of childhood, the person behind each child\'s laptop, you will send a computer helicopter to a remote area so that the children there can learn to read and write by themselves.
Where did this idea come from?
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Even after nearly 3 million laptops were distributed, they were still criticized by the following lines and colons;
\"You can give a child a laptop and walk away, according to negomante.
Whether I believe this or not, it is secondary now.
I finally asked myself a year ago & colon;
\"What if you can?
\"When will this happen? A pre-
The pilot will begin in January 1, 2012. Pre-
The pilot means it will be small, and in order to better design the real, hands-on, there will be moderate human intervention to observe the child\'s responseoff, dropping-out-of-the-sky format.
How will you pick the website?
English must be the official language.
Therefore, learning English reading and writing has direct local and social values, as well as long-term
Short-term economic value-in short, it will become a passport for the 21 st century --century skills.
Villages in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Liberia are candidates. A pre-
India will also pilot.
Now, as researchers, we know how children learn English and don\'t want to deal with the complexity of other languages yet.
How do you know if this works?
There was no human intervention in this experiment.
However, this limitation does not exist when verifying and testing results.
At the end of the two-year-
After long-term experiments, researchers trained in educational tests will travel to the village.
The children are not connected to the Internet, but we are connected to them, so some data collection and evaluation will also be done remotely during the experiment.
How is the power supply and maintenance of the tablet?
Solar and manual crank.
With the OLPC laptop, kids can fix about 85 faults.
We designed it so easily.
In fact, I want to put a label & Colon on it;
\"The warranty is not valid until the laptop is tampered.
\"The tablet will become stronger again.
What is your target audience? Five to 8-year-olds.
Since the software is really child-centered and immersive at that stage of life, they may be too naive for older children.
What makes you optimistic that children can learn by themselves using digital tools?
There is provocative evidence in the study.
Our team\'s Sugata Mitra is known for his hole. in-the-
Wall experiment.
Over the past decade, he has launched his first computer in public space in remote villages in India.
Children who have never seen a computer before gathered around the machine, self
Organize the learning community to become a computer-
There is culture, no adult intervention.
In fact, their computer literacy is comparable to that of children who receive explicit instruction at school.
My general optimism is that kids can do anything and if you ask Sugata they seem to be able to do anything collectively.
But I really do it with an open mind.
This is an experiment, and one result may be \"no, they can\'t \".