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Linux Handhelds in African Schools

Posted by timothy on from the all-depends-on-execution dept.

blastard writes "Seems some students will be getting to use their Linux handhelds in school without getting into trouble. BBCNews has a story on fifth-graders in Kenya who will be using "E-slates" from EduVision. The EduVision site is available in German, English and Swahili."

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  1. This will be great by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

    for children in some countries who want to make contacts in the US to help them smuggle millions of dollars out of their war-torn country

  2. Am I getting old... by crypty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its amazing how far things are getting at this stage... My hats off to the fine people who are out to make this sort of education possible for kids around the world. Its just a tad scarey that in my day we only had home made paint and a cave wall... although there was that posh kid with his abacus.

    --
    "Carpe Noctem"
  3. Re:Wish we had these... by aussie_a · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give computers to a group of school kids in Dallas, Tokyo, Africa or anywhere and one or two curious of them will understand the in and outs of them in notime.

    But give them a spell-checker and they'll still be wondering how to use it after 14 years.