India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program

ex-geek writes "Seems like Negroponte's One Laptop per Child program has been rejected by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India. Among the objections are concerns about the effect of extensive laptop use on children's health. Better uses for the monies, which would be required to roll out the OLPC project, are also named. Most insightful however is the observation that not one industrial country has so far implemented a similar program for its children, which casts doubt as to what the pedagogical use for notebooks in class really is."

Comments

Re:Passing the buck

[10sball]

north korea

Re:MS counter move

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks to blogs, I only hear about opinions which directly match my political leanings. Therefore I have not learned anything about this so-called "Bangled Desh."

Health reasons?

[Neil Blender]

What, is he afraid that India will turn into a country where everyone has a really muscular right arm?

Reduce the population first

[Anonymous Coward]

India has too many people already. I recommend a "One Child Per Laptop" program! :)

Two words

[twofidyKidd]

"...which casts doubt as to what the pedagogical use for notebooks in class really is."

Sex Ed.

Re:Passing the buck

[Spazntwich]

I think they're still working on their "one missile per child" campaign.

Though before that gains any momentum they'll probably need to complete their "one functioning missile" campaign.

Re:Nigeria accepts OLPC

[Anonymous Crowhead]

Great. 419 scam emails will jump 100 fold.

Re:Nigeria accepts OLPC

[Spazntwich]

They probably see it as an investment in what is currently their third to fifth largest national industry.

Re:Passing the buck

[Homology]

Is India still like Indiana Jones, where they'd flee in superstitious terror from the "sorcery" of electronic tools?

Seems like you have a good, decent and very solid Kansas education.

One missile per child?

[Asztal_]

Oh, you simply must come over, I have the latest model.

Re:Passing the buck

[blugu64]

"Is India still like Indiana Jones, where they'd flee in superstitious terror from the "sorcery" of electronic tools?"

that would explain some of the outsourced code I've seen on thedailtwtf.com

Re:Nigeria accepts OLPC

[Anonymous Coward]

Great, all that's missing now is a "One Bank Account Per Child" program for North America and Western Europe.

ourselfs?

[DavidinAla]

Your post is pretty good evidence of a broken education system. Where did you go to school? ;-)

David

Re:Passing the buck

[saskboy]

"Like what? Electromagnetic fields? Those have pretty much been proven okay in the last 100 years."

I guess you didn't know that male pattern baldness, and impotence didn't exist before wireless telegraphy came along, didn't you?