news.yahoo.com — ARAHUAY, Peru - Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.
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twinklyjesusDec 25, 2007
Peruvian helmets are cool! I want one now!~
herostratosDec 25, 2007
The article read:The children really liked playing on their computerTherefore, "Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly"I am still rather skeptical. Computers and IT is not some magic wand that can instaneously remove poverty and bad education, as policymakers usually want to believe.
twinklyjesusDec 26, 2007
Of course, since you are not from the USA, everything anyone from the USA thinks is irrelevant. You think only what matters to you is relevant. How quaintly egocentric you are, for a pompous foreign person, posting on an American website. Ironic, isn't it?
theuniversalDec 26, 2007
"Computers and IT is not some magic wand that can instaneously remove poverty and bad education"The people who started this project and the people who support it would agree with you 100%. Nobody thinks it's a magic solution to anything. It's just giving them a push in the right direction. A certain number of the kids getting these computers will be engineers 10 years from now, when they otherwise would not have been. People underestimate the value of information and what people can do for themselves when given tools.
housecentipedeDec 26, 2007
The problem is the crap-heavy website you're reading, not a deficiency in the machine. Sites like this with overkill JS and AJAX and buzzwords need to be crippled.
housecentipedeDec 26, 2007
No.
geezasDec 28, 2007
jack off they did......I'm just talking about ....fine, next generation
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