OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village

mrcgran writes "The Chicago Tribune is running a feel-good story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in 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. At breakfast, they're already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night, they're dozing off in front of them — if they've managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed.'"

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[Hognoxious]

Huh? I thought they'd concluded it was a meteorite? [guardian.co.uk]

Re:Education

[phillips321]

i'd like to see how fishing is done with a laptop....(even though i agree with your comment)

Re:Education

[eln]

Give a man Internet access, and he'll surf porn all day and starve to death.

Re:A shining path to success...

[Anonymous Coward]

Better reporting then the ones you see in the US? And what prey tell do you found this baseless opinion on? National pride and Ethnocentrism? Yeah, though so ...

Just because you're 'brown' or a 'foreigner' doesn't mean you can provided an un-biased opinion or are less prone to ethnocentrism then Americans.

*sigh* ... cue Faux News jokes ...

Re:A shining path to success...

[QuantumG]

biggest source of corruption there is from the government, not the other way around.

Yeah, that's what he said: capitalism.

Re:A shining path to success...

[packeteer]

whoops posted the wrong post to the wrong forum...

Re:es:Pesca

[autophile]

5. Sell fish.
6. PROFIT!

Am I missing a step???

5 1/2. ????

Your Slashdot card is hereby revoked.

Re:eBay

[xenocide2]

Just imagine what'll happen when they learn to send email!

OLPC: Training the next generation of Nig 419 Scammers ;)