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October 31, 2012 04:16 pm PDT
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Illiterate kids given sealed boxes with tablets figure out how to use, master, and hack them
Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child presentation at the MIT Tech Review EmTech conference recounted an inspiring experiment in which illiterate Ethiopian village-kids were given solar-charging laptops in sealed boxes, and quickly taught themselves how to operate, then master, then hack, these devices, acquiring basic literacy and technological literacy at the same time. MIT Technology [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CrliasC09wE/illiterate-kids-given-sealed-b.html
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