Digital Kids
Can you imagine every kid going to school with his own laptop?
No, not just in rich countries, I mean EVERY kid going to school with a laptop.
Laptops are too expensive. Right... What if the laptops were under $100?
Still too expensive, I know. At least while a big percentage of the worlds population struggles to survive under $1 a day.
Ok, so these guys are dreamers, but at least they have a dream that can eventually reach millions of kids.
Even if they can’t actually reach every kid in the world they are making an effort.
No, not just in rich countries, I mean EVERY kid going to school with a laptop.
Laptops are too expensive. Right... What if the laptops were under $100?
Still too expensive, I know. At least while a big percentage of the worlds population struggles to survive under $1 a day.
Ok, so these guys are dreamers, but at least they have a dream that can eventually reach millions of kids.
Even if they can’t actually reach every kid in the world they are making an effort.
posted by DCveR at 7:39 AM
9 Comments:
That's a neat idea. I'm dating myself but I remember the days when merely having chalk was considered a luxury. *lol*
I don't know if every child having a lap top is as great an idea as every child having a loving family, confortable shelter and a hot meal each day. I suppose the concept is interesting, but considering most of our children are not learning what they should...well, laptops are not on my list of priorities for our children. (at least not mine)
Hm, I have to think about this one...will it make them better people...? Learn more? Think more...? Or will it make their eyes go bad sooner?
tacit: The moment you walk out of the store, worst the moment you buy it it's already obsolete.
Bent: Gosh you didn’t seem that old in the photo you almost published.
Icy: Nothing can make for the lack of a loving and supporting family, but a lot of kids in poor countries can’t afford learning materials, and with this a once in a lifetime $100 investment and you can even download the contents of every textbook a child would need into the machine. Not all at once of course, but if one thinks about the cost of textbooks for several years, and the fact that the interaction makes it easier to learn and most of all the fact that every kid in rich countries already has the edge of having access to computers at an early age makes me like the idea. This can help reduce the education gap between rich and poor countries.
Isis: A laptop they can take home, share with the family, connect with other kids to do homework and a lot more.
GG: Reading your stuff could make them better people. :) And if they connect their laptops to the Web they can reach your blog!!!
i think that would be EXCELLENT!- this is what i call going to the ROOT of the problem..
children in developing nations are the ones that will grow up to have businesses and be political leaders- if they are educated and lets assume having a computer will connect them w/ the rest of the world closer-- they will feel like they can change their lives, and be able to do something that perhaps no one in their town has done before-- i think we can be on our way to reducing poverty and other problems--
Dcver, you're always so kind :-)
Children should be taught how to think, how to analyse...and that can be done without a computer. If a child is equipped with the ability to think, to analyse, to seek knowledge through all media, then nothing can hold back him or her.
So many 1st world folks have the fanciest technology at their fingertips, yet...
I trulyhope that this dream CAN become a reality. Along with solar powered cars! I wish these guys luck.
LAST GIRL ON EARTH
ale: One of the things I like best about this project is the fact that those guys are not in it for profit, but I guess that if this really goes forward there will be another wealthy CEO... ;)
GG: Technology cannot replace family, love and values nor logics and reasoning, but the technological gap is a reality and this can be a step to solve it.
tall glass: The way these guys see it this is a step to solve hunger problems too. In the sense that rather than just getting food there you are providing education tools that will eventually help them learn to help themselves. Sadly I understand your doubts, but we have got to have a little hope, right?
last girl: I wouldn’t put much hope on solar powered cars. Hydrogen maybe, but solar I don’t believe they will become fast enough.
Yyyes, that's true, that technology gap is there...but I still look at technologically savvy kids and wonder...
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