From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 19:08:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6D416A41B for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5853D13C4AC for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 8319 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2007 19:07:52 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Nov 2007 19:07:51 -0000 Message-ID: <4738A434.8020204@chuckr.org> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:06:28 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <20071111195501.46d58539@p4> <200711120704.lAC744lR082341@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200711120704.lAC744lR082341@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rmarella@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:08:01 -0000 Olivier Nicole wrote: >> I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very >> strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is >> offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well >> invested. YMMV >> >> http://xogiving.org/ > > That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this > is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving > laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... You ought to actually _visit_ one or more of the schools that have practical computers for the kids. At least in my own experience, well, it's very disillusioning. The teachers have only a vague notion about what a compuiter is, so basically the students are given some games to waste their time with, and graded on how quiet they are while playing. The teachers themselves are usually actually frightened of the machines, so they react negatively to anyone who volunteers to teach computers. I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't contribute to any "computers for kids" deal, because it only benefits big computer companies, who sell the machines, not the kids. > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"