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OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village
mrcgran writes "The Chicago Tribune is running a feel-good story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in Peru. 'Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. At breakfast, they're already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night, they're dozing off in front of them — if they've managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed.'"
"Daddy, what is a union?"
"Daddy, what's a homer-segsual?"
"Daddy, why are we cutting taxes for the crazy rich?"
"Daddy, why was mommy tased?"
"Daddy, why did that soldier shoot that protestor dead...?"
"Daddy, why are we losing the house?"
"Daddy, why is Bush invading us?"
"Daddy, why did uncle Muhammed not come back from the American prison camp?"
"Daddy, why does god only love the USA?"
"Daddy, why did they blow mommy up?"
Knowledge. Keep it from kids until they're growed up right.
Forgot one:
"Daddy, why did the American soldier call me a terrorist sand n$%@er that wants to destroy Christians?"
I imagine that would come up a lot, OLPC or no.