One Laptop Per Child: Comments on Jeffrey James's Critique
One Laptop Per Child OLPC is a non-profit organization that has introduced the one to one modality in the use of computers for education in many developing and poor countries. It is based in the idea of an "expanded school" where each child and teacher owns his or her own laptop connected to the Internet. Children spontaneously work in collaboration and teach each other in many different settings at school, at home and in public places. Teachers are not limited to work in a computer lab or computer class in restricted periods of time and are able to coach the development of neurocognitive skills of each cohort of students. The one to one modality reflects a vision of social equity that is beyond sharing arrangements.
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