I got into this pretty hard with Beedge a few months ago. I think OLPC is right in getting the computers straight to the students and bypassing the teachers. How many blogging teachers do you know? How many teachers do you IM with? I’m sure it’s just a few bad seeds but the lack of tech-savviness among teachers seems to paint a picture that teachers don’t want to learn for the sake of learning, they want to learn to rise up their union-specified pay scale.
Kids do like to learn for the sake of learning. Get them the technology and they’ll learn more. That seems to be the vision behind OLPC. If teachers are angry because they’re not able to stand in the way and profit from this, well, they’re smart enough to propose an alternative.
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It would be great if we knew how Negroponte is going to achieve this striaght-to-students action, and once there, how that move would really help students. So far, he’s only promising miracles: http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/implementation_miracle.html