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- jamshid, on 10/16/2009, -9/+39And Finland makes Internet access a right, not a privilege. It's time for the US to get in the game. USA! USA!
- Jikul, on 10/17/2009, -2/+28Inaccurate. Portugal did this 2 years ago.
- Hetman, on 10/16/2009, -5/+30I like Americas system better. A partial education, a copy of atlas shrugged and a pat on the back. If that does not get you through life then nothing will.
- niallabrown, on 10/17/2009, -2/+17Why would they be criticised for not using mainstream software? They could never afford to maintain hundreds of thousands of laptops that are filled with malicious software. Sugar is a safe, easy to use OS with a user interface that doesn't require an extensive knowledge of the English language and is simple enough that it can be self taught.
- FaithclubDotNet, on 10/17/2009, -1/+16It isn't the laptop that is needed imho. It is freeing information. Free textbooks online = Free materials for teaching = better education. Free coursework online = anyone can get an education from K-college.
It takes a lot of money to get information compiled online to teach every subject from K-college, and the US government should be doing it. The only problem is that the US government is really backwards when it comes to embracing the Internet for its full capacity. Also I bet there are lobbyists for intellectual property in the pockets of senators. - yocouchdigga, on 10/17/2009, -5/+18*waits for a wingnut to say something stupid*
- Hetman, on 10/16/2009, -4/+16No but we should be trying to keep an educated populace. This is because it helps everyone rich and poor. In this day and age you need more than just manual labor for most jobs. With out an educated populace the rich and poor suffer a like.
- Jaime2000, on 10/17/2009, -5/+15But this is ZOMG SOCIALISM!!!!1!!!one!!!!
/s - Ceryn1126, on 10/17/2009, -1/+11The funny part is that he didn't say republican, he said, "wingnut". You seem to think that that means you. I mean... I guess if the shoe fits.
- mrhuhk, on 10/17/2009, -0/+10What's with all the "third world country" remarks?
First off, the term itself is a Cold War relic meant to make any country that didn't side with us or the Soviets look like dweebs.
Second, in its current usage, a third world country is a place where there isn't clean drinking water. The kinda hellhole where you might get infested by guinea worms.
So, um . . . Uraguay isn't either of those. - Ceryn1126, on 10/17/2009, -2/+10The problem is that it produced people like you who think that it's wrong to search for information before answering a question.
It's good to have an opinion, but wrong to think that yours is the only one that matters. - nseb, on 10/17/2009, -0/+7I'm from Uruguay, I don't think we're a third world country
Montevideo (the biggest city in the country) provides the highest quality of life in Latin America, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting
According to Transparency International, Uruguay is rated as the least corrupt country in Latin America (along with Chile), with its political and labor conditions being among the freest on the continent.
Also It was the first Latin American country to legalize same and different sex civil unions at a national level - yocouchdigga, on 10/17/2009, -1/+8Hah, we have a winner! Stop projecting, clownshoes.
- Dot.Com.CEO, on 10/17/2009, -0/+6This is correct. Why are you digging this guy down?
This is the (portuguese) wikipedia entry, feel free to google further if you like: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3%A1til_Magalh% ... - Liverpools9, on 10/17/2009, -2/+8I'm sure you won't have to wait very long.
- salidux, on 10/17/2009, -0/+6They don't need to eat the laptop.
The free public education provides healty meals for those studends who can't afford food.
But that's not something new, because we had have that for much more than 20 years - salidux, on 10/17/2009, -1/+7Take a look for the institutional video (Spanish version)
http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_cont ...
And YES... this is SOCIALISM.
For that people who don't undersand, SOCIALISM is NOT authoritarism, dictatorship, or a bad thing... we are free, and we live in democracy. - salidux, on 10/17/2009, -0/+5The computers were not handed alone. An educational plan was deployed on all state schools for the right use of this tool.
- Onanism, on 10/17/2009, -1/+6WTF dude, you just gave three pieces of stuff for free - that's still socialism! If anybody wants any of those, they can pay for those out of their own damned money! (/s, of course, bought and paid for from the sweat of my brow)
- splinter09, on 10/17/2009, -0/+5Indeed is Awesome news, specially coming from what they call a third world country.
- elmonkeylp, on 10/18/2009, -0/+5I'm from Uruguay, (age 31, Linux Sysadmin), I did not vote the current president because he is the left (socialism), well, now I am totaly agree with that measures implemented, in 10 year we will have an entire nacion of nerds xD.
- JuanBSU, on 10/17/2009, -0/+5You're seriously saying they should get an iPhone over a laptop? Are you ***** kidding me? I hate using the iPod Touch for more than 5 minutes because it's just not comfortable. I don't want to do long web searches or write a paper on an iPhone. And how are they cheaper? If this is costing $260 with everything included, how is this any cheaper than an iPhone?
- mickstephenson, on 10/17/2009, -1/+5@newchap, Tech Savvy != Intelligence.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/17/2009, -0/+4This is awesome. But... if you're really critical... you cannot insure a better education by just throwing stuff at kids. Hopefully this movement will be followed by a school system that will make good use of this new tool. The internet has utterly proved us, without a doubt, is that people in contact with computers do not become necessarily intelligent....(some are barely sentinent)
- Felipaoxx, on 10/18/2009, -0/+4Im uruguayan and my both sisters have one of these each. They're not good at all, but we can say thats makes the students contact with computers, real, in some cases that I'd be impossible through any other way...
It's a nice idea, but general opinion here says that the implementation is not good, starting from the knowledge of teachers about computers, who received a few classe before the laptops were given, but not enough to instruct children correctly...
It's just a local opinion ;) - wosayit, on 10/17/2009, -0/+4Price includes training for teachers, support, updates, services etc. that you won't get from a stock netbook.
- XeroXenith, on 10/17/2009, -1/+5Remember that many people consider "computer" to mean "Windows". It's the most popular and the most used in the world, so you can understand why some people think it should just be used everywhere.
But Sugar in this case is a much better alternative - the last thing 9-year-old children who have never used a computer need is some tasty pornographic adware. - whorunbartertwn, on 10/17/2009, -0/+4Look at the picture in the article, what they are calling laptops don't appear to be much more than netbooks. Plus at $260 including training/maint/support/internet how much cheaper could a netbook possibly be?
- jrm125, on 10/17/2009, -0/+4Agreed. Textbooks are one of the most under-talked about problems in our system.
They're overpriced, and often lacking in pertinent information. Far too many teachers just teach straight from the book and the whole nasty cycle continues.
I also think, as a sidebar...too many kids are encouraged to go to college. Trade schools are looked down on and yet, more people should probably attend them instead of meandering through college unsure of a major. Go learn a skill, do something you love. If I had it to do over again, I'd probably forgo college and grad school and learn a trade. - PacificChef, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3There is no evolutionary pressure here or in western countries. Third world countries need to make sweeping changes to progress, or perish in an economy built by/for the West.... get ready for the meek to inherit the earth...lol!
- jrm125, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3Sadly I never even got the Atlas Shrugged portion of that equation.
The pat on the back wouldn't be half bad either...it'd be really nice juxtaposed against the years of torment and ridicule. - omababy, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3scared much
- Ceryn1126, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3If you aren't from the states why did you make an article about Uruguay into a political argument about the US education system? You also said "our education system" which implies that you are from America since it was a reply to the person who posted above.
- lucaspt1, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3That information is wrong, if you search the web, you will see that Portugal was the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school.
- jamshid, on 10/19/2009, -1/+4A smart country today will make sure its people have internet access; not necessarily for free, but available and affordable. It's in everyone's best interest for poor kids to have it at home, not just those with parents that can afford it.
It's not a matter of whether internet access is an inalienable right. Like education and roads, it's a service that simply makes a lot of sense for society to provide. A country that treats the internet like a luxury is being penny-wise and pound foolish, doing a poor job of preparing itself for the future. - bman1984, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3A lot of Americans believe every country is miles behind them in terms of progress. This might have been true 50 years ago, but it just isn't anymore. Most of the people who hold this view have never left the country.
- inactive, on 10/17/2009, -1/+4Many American schools have expensive computer labs, pro-team quality sports facilities, clean and new textbooks, but no we are supposed to feel jealous or our system is behind because our children don't have a 200 dollar Playskool laptop.
Seriously you can get a laptop for the price of a T-83 calculator nowadays, search craigslist if you need to, if American parents claim they can't afford it, they shouldn't have children in the first place. - pbs11, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3"best standards in life"? by what metrics? where were you in the past eight years? haven't you been reading the UN report on the Human Development Index lately?
- opticwind, on 10/17/2009, -1/+4Also, who says I grew up in the states, rebel?
- PacificChef, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2That is an interesting reality check. Have you read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? (1986 Hugo Award Winning Science Fiction Book): It is a tory about the smart children who are able to intuit the programming in computers and people and basically take over the world....it works (in the book...)
- Purplekat, on 10/17/2009, -1/+3I've got an XO that I got the first year their give one/get one program was implemented. At the time, it wasn't clear if they'd be doing it again, so I jumped on it. :) The computer is very small, like an extremely cute green netbook.
- arpad, on 10/17/2009, -3/+5Not only does Tech Savvy != Intelligence, computers != education.
For all the excitement this announcement will generate no one's figured out how to use computers to any worthwhile purpose in education. Well, OK, if you're a vendor then selling computers to the education ministry makes computers in education very worthwhile but if educating kids is what you consider a worthwhile use of computers in education then no, this won't result in any improvements.
But hey, as long as there are politicians who are getting kick-backs from vendors there'll always be a use for computers in education. - inactive, on 10/17/2009, -1/+3Good for you, be socialist for all I care, but America is a capitalist state and we intend to stay that way.
- Psywar, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2Magalhães ftw!!!!
- inactive, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2"When it comes to socialistic policies, regardless of their impact on society, you begin frothing at the mouth."
Of course because we got people pointing to these countries and trying to change America into a socialist state just because they pull off some inane experiment like this one.
My point still stands. There is not a single American parent who cannot go find a 100 dollar laptop for their child. Why should the state have to provide it for them?
In a 3rd world country things may be different and they do need a government program, but we are a modern 21st century country, parents take some personal responsibility and spend your own money, no one bitches we ask parents to spend money on school supplies and clothes, why is it suddenly taboo to ask them to buy a cheapo laptop? - sexyloser, on 10/17/2009, -2/+4Socialism FTW!
- SniperAlf22, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2I'm not saying an Iphone necessarily. You're right about the price and.....basically everything else. I'm just saying that if you ever go to a third world country nowadays, you'll see that everyone has a cell phone. So in the future, not right now, cell phones will probably take over as a means of education and technology instruction.....and I've used the Iphone as an example of what cell phones are capable of.
- errik03, on 10/17/2009, -2/+4meh thats cool laptops are cheap now'a days
- lcllam, on 10/19/2009, -0/+2Isn't it obvious that the technology in and of itself is of little to no value to the students who don't want to work at improving their grades? Usually, these schemes involve some guy getting a huge supply contract, with little to no follow up, no content and little in the way of teacher capability to use the systems in an effective manner.
I was in a symposium a while back, when a bunch of delegates asked the Singaporean delegate how to get money for such programs (basically, trying to equip classrooms with projectors, PCs, laptops, etc.. using state funds). The Singaporean dude proceeded to relate how he'd been in Finland a while ago, and remarked how it was like Singapore in the stone ages (probably not quite so bad, but his point followed) - chalk boards, wooden desks, no technology aside from wooden rulers, protractors, etc. But THEN, his host told him there are some basic principles of education there. E.g. the teachers must be Masters or higher level academics themselves. Student to teacher ratio is something like 20:1 (small compared to my hometown, where it is 40-50:1).
Point is: everyone seems to be looking for the quick fix, and forgetting the fundamentals. Multimedia doesn't make a course any more easy to absorb - quality guidance is better. Teachers generally aren't multimedia authors, so teaching degenerates into placing a disc into a drive and clicking AutoRun. Heaven forbid if the PC BSODs. If the idea is to provide an illustrative guide, then you certainly don't need to get laptops for everyone. Then, the laptops get used for their other obvious use: pr0n and facebook. During classes. OLPC and several similar schemes in the north of Malaysia seem to have demonstrated this quite amply. Now the projectors are locked up because the kids seem to know how to use them better than the educators. sigh.... - inactive, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2Yeah how far those private schools fall behind public education in test scores and life successes!
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