Doh!
/snort
LOLS! I watched my Fist Youtube Video in Journalism Class back in 2006!
School Ain't for learning Kids, its for wasting time!
Imagine...
Idiots.
It was a stupid idea and just an excuse for not teaching the students the basic 3R's. As for them figuring out how to play video games - I echo the earlier duhs.
I heard Rush mention it this morning.
A billion dollars! That’s one thousand million taxpayer bucks! And so far only two thirds of the machines have been returned while the young thieves are surfing porn sites. I guess they’ll get credit for their sex education studies.
Now who could have predicted this would happen? ;)
I remember this article from years ago when the OLPC (one laptop per child) craze was high:
India ditches ‘potentially harmful’ $100 laptop plan
http://www.zdnet.com/india-ditches-potentially-harmful-100-laptop-plan-3039279996/
India has declared it won’t be buying any $100 laptops, saying it prefers to spend the money on teachers and more traditional teaching tools.
The Indian government rejected proposals by the country’s Planning Commission to buy the $100 (£54) hardware from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
According to local newspaper Kaumudi, India’s education secretary Sudeep Banerjee said the project was “pedagogically suspect” and giving the country’s schoolchildren a laptop each could harm their creative thinking and analytical abilities.
He is quoted as telling the Planning Commission: “We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyond the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools.”
The OLPC project is “not mature enough to be taken seriously at this stage”, Banerjee added.
The first working prototype of the laptop was shown in May and the OLPC has already received its first order from Nigeria. The African country placed an order for one million of the Linux laptops, although the devices won’t go into production until orders for at least five million have been received.
Everybody know Apple is virus free, hacker proof, ad nauseam.
Nothing will upgrade a blackboard and chalk and textbooks
pens, pencils and notepaper...
a well stocked school or public library
and a lot of study time...
Hey, at least it isn’t porn.
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