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One Laptop Per Child. CINE – Jean-Baptiste Devevey. An educational Philosophy. Based on the theory of S. Papert called Constructionism Transmission of knowledge is just a small fraction of learning. Children can learn on their own with hardly any influence from teachers
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One Laptop Per Child CINE – Jean-Baptiste Devevey
An educational Philosophy • Based on the theory of S. Papert called Constructionism • Transmission of knowledge is just a small fraction of learning. • Children can learn on their own with hardly any influence from teachers • « It is not a laptop project, it is an educational project » • Core idea: education is the best way to reduce inequalities • “If every child in the world has access to a computer, what potential could be unlocked? What problems could be solved?”
A small machine with a big mission • An ultra low-cost, powerful, rugged, low-power, and ecological laptop • Designed collaboratively by experts from academia and the industry • Specifically designed for the Third World • Initial price objective: $100
Issues raised • Questions about the educational project • Disdains the role of teachers in the developing world • Debatable usefulness • Developing countries need development, food, and medical aid first • Yet, education goes with development • Risk to substitute a divide by another • Substitute the original digital divide – based on access – by another one – based on the uses • Shared resources?