Posted on 03/02/2010 7:39:34 AM PST by bs9021
No Laptop Left Behind
Malcolm A. Kline, February 26, 2010
Educators and their benefactors might ponder what good computers are when students can’t read what’s on the screen. “Imagine a world where even the poorest of children have access to a computer—the poverty gap that could be reduced, the problems that could be solved and the wealth of knowledge that could be shared!” Jennifer Gracie of Hult International Business School notes. “In March, 2010 One Laptop per Child (OLPC) in partnership with Hult International Business School, TalentCastr.com and the Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center) will play host to top MBA and university students from across the globe who will compete simultaneously in four locations (Boston, London, Dubai and Shanghai) at the inaugural Global Case Challenge (GCC).”....
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I don’t want the poorest children in the world to have a laptop. How many Nigerian email scams do we need to see? How many more jobs would be offshored?
How about improving their agricultural production instead so they don’t starve?
So then... You would deny giving the poor access to even the most basic level of Internet pornography? Why stop there? Let’s just round them all up and chuck them into a gas chamber!
A computer doesn’t help someone to read, write, and ‘rithmatic more than paper and a pencil.
What does that have to do with giving them the access to pr0n that they deserve? You’re violating their civil rights!
What one is doing makes more difference than what one has for equipment.
Kids are rough enough on textbooks. I can’t imagine how long a laptop would last in their hands. Some things are not appreciated unless earned. It reminds me of kids that wreck cars their parents gave them. Those that pay their own way take better care of their stuff. My generation graduated from school somehow without computers — imagine that!
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