After delivering laptops to poor schools around the world (mostly in third world countries) in order to improve education, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization is trying something completely different: student self-learning.
OLPC decided to conduct an experiment. The organization picked two Ethiopian villages and dropped off Motorola Xoom tablets with locked-down software (that disabled the camera and froze the home screen settings) to the children there. The interesting part is that the workers gave absolutely no instructions on what to do with them. The boxes containing the tablets were still taped up when they got there. |
