Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th May 2008 09:02 UTC
Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
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RE[2]: Free software helps learning
by DrillSgt on Thu 15th May 2008 05:43
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"The Web is a great educational resource for the reasonably educated, but a child cannot learn by exploring Wikipedia. Children need a step-by-step program, and to my knowledge, this kind of resource doesn't exist on the Web in a libre/gratis form."
Actually there *is* lots of material out there. Do a search for home school curriculum. There are some sites that charge, yes. There are also plenty of sites that do not, and provide the material gratis to the parents that are teaching. So what you propose does already exist, though it could stand to be unified better.
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2005-07-08
As the saying goes, "it's the content, stupid!"
How about we start with a collaborative project to develop a free educational curriculum with textbooks, exercises, lesson plans, etc. under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license. If there were a comprehensive education available for consumption or derivation by anyone with a computer, then there would be a strong case for deploying computers in the developing world.
The Web is a great educational resource for the reasonably educated, but a child cannot learn by exploring Wikipedia. Children need a step-by-step program, and to my knowledge, this kind of resource doesn't exist on the Web in a libre/gratis form. I propose a UN-sponsored organization headed by professional educators from around the world to coordinate the distributed development of free and open primary and secondary curricula.