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India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the children-make-the-best-lab-rats dept.

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."

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  1. It may be a case of self-defeat. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you've been to India and you know something about the history of the people there, you know they are very self-defeating.

    For years the rich and powerful in India prevented outside influence. This slowed India's development.

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    U.S. Government violence encourages other violence.