If we put say 1 lab of 70 computers per school,~ 4000 - it will cost us ~ $86million vs. over $400million for OLPC - can we reconsider?
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We found that without child ownership, it usually fails. CO leads to increased exploration, confidence, sibling learning...
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I agree - but with many competing priorities in a resource scarce country - OLPC can come later!
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computer labs output in schools & 1to1 access such as OLPC have different outputs\impacts the cost is only one aspect
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labs are shared resources which require shared time tables between classes\subjects while 1to1 enables all subjects
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challenge is not on cost but rather enabling this transformation which is changing the role\approach of teachers
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you are talking alot of sense! That is called positive criticsm and being solution oriented.
I love this. Since Rw has fiber metropolitan, why not just put dum terminals in each school n access CPU from e data center.