http://www.tmttlt.com/2006/07/27/india-rejects-one-laptop-per-childindia-rejects-one-laptop-per-child-the-register/ All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:40:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.tmttlt.com/2006/07/27/india-rejects-one-laptop-per-childindia-rejects-one-laptop-per-child-the-register/comment-page-1/#comment-100 CleverGirl Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:48:56 +0000 http://www.tmttlt.com/archives/2006/07/27/4927/#comment-100 Actually, I gotta say that I think the Education Secretary has a point about their pedagogy. Everytime I read the OLPC website, it is all about the hardware and very little about the learning environment. Moreover, what they are proposing re: the learning environment (assuming Banerjee has read Papert's work at all) is certainly well beyond anything which could be called "culturally sensitive" or "culturally appropriate". It's revolutionary enough in a place like Canada, so how can one expect it to be easily accepted and adopted in poor countries? Actually, I gotta say that I think the Education Secretary has a point about their pedagogy. Everytime I read the OLPC website, it is all about the hardware and very little about the learning environment. Moreover, what they are proposing re: the learning environment (assuming Banerjee has read Papert’s work at all) is certainly well beyond anything which could be called “culturally sensitive” or “culturally appropriate”. It’s revolutionary enough in a place like Canada, so how can one expect it to be easily accepted and adopted in poor countries?

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