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Walter Bender Resigns From OLPC

Posted by timothy on from the shiny-but-not-an-ass dept.

westlake writes "Walter Bender, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, and, in many ways, the tireless workhorse and public face of OLPC, has resigned from OLPC after being reorganized and sidetracked into insignificance. The rumor mill would have it that 'constructionism as children [learn] learning' is being replaced by a much less romantic view of the XO's place in the classroom and XO's tech in the marketplace."

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  1. oblig by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did his final words as he left have anything to do with biting his shiny metal ass?

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    1. Re:oblig by thhamm · · Score: 5, Funny

      with biting his shiny metal ass?

      nah, but: 'i'll make my own OLPC ... with blackjack ... and hookers.'

    2. Re:oblig by cephah · · Score: 3, Funny

      nah, but: 'i'll make my own OLPC ... with blackjack ... and hookers.' In fact forget the OLPC, and the blackjack.
    3. Re:oblig by everphilski · · Score: 4, Funny

      antiquing?

  2. Instead OLPC should deepen its approch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Teach children how to learn to learn learning.

  3. Avatar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe he was lured over to the fire nation.

  4. Bender Was Quoted... by FrankDrebin · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... "bite my rubberized, lime-green ass."

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  5. Re:romantic? WTF? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not if your customer is the governor of NY.

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