Comments on: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO: First Impressions http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2008/04/08/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-xo-first-impressions/ Occasional prattle on life and learning in the 21st century Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:12:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gulstrom http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2008/04/08/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-xo-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Gulstrom Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:37:05 +0000 http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2008/04/08/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-xo-first-impressions/#comment-165 I admire your spirit, generosity, and global service but I have to challenge your school of thought and experiment. I believe that as an educator and semi-science geek your experiment should have been a controlled subject. An eight year old with 10 years of prior exposure to the IT world is an unfair analysis of the XO/laptop. He has preconceived notions, expectations, and more hands-on experience with a state of the art 'big box' computer than the 5 people ahead of me in the McDonalds drive-up. He's a wonderfully creative, intelligent, and curious young participant but I can't help but feel that his prior experience casts a cloud upon the sunshine, thrill, and excitement displayed by a village full of innocent third world children. My final thought. I don't understand the 'give on, get one' theory. If the program is lacking or behind production, why would you 'get one'. They should create a program 'give two, screw you'. Sorry, I'm not responding seriously. This is a wonderful program and attempt to educate some very deserving children. Educate, Communicate, and try not to Hate, -gulstrom I admire your spirit, generosity, and global service but I have to challenge your school of thought and experiment. I believe that as an educator and semi-science geek your experiment should have been a controlled subject. An eight year old with 10 years of prior exposure to the IT world is an unfair analysis of the XO/laptop. He has preconceived notions, expectations, and more hands-on experience with a state of the art ‘big box’ computer than the 5 people ahead of me in the McDonalds drive-up. He’s a wonderfully creative, intelligent, and curious young participant but I can’t help but feel that his prior experience casts a cloud upon the sunshine, thrill, and excitement displayed by a village full of innocent third world children.

My final thought. I don’t understand the ‘give on, get one’ theory. If the program is lacking or behind production, why would you ‘get one’. They should create a program ‘give two, screw you’.

Sorry, I’m not responding seriously. This is a wonderful program and attempt to educate some very deserving children.

Educate, Communicate, and try not to Hate,
-gulstrom

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