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Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
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Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 05:44 AM
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I saw a project called "One Laptop Per Child" on the internet recently. Let's discuss how you the project will help children in education? I think it will expand learning for poor children definitely because it will make the children can easily reach information which there are lots of them on the internet. Moreover, this will provide opportunities for children to be more globalized too. How do you think about the project?
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 07:48 AM
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heya
well, you being also thai i think one of the obstacles with that is the fact that thailand actually has very few educational pages
I think the project has potential but without the right planning it could be a huge waste of money. How can we be sure that the laptop would be used to its fullest potential?
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 09:53 AM
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i think the project is great. students would really benefit from these laptops. they would have easy access to information and making projects and paper works won't be that tiring anymore with these laptops.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 10:02 AM
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i dont think so. let us remember that the use of laptop is not limited to studying alone. one can do a lot of things with laptop. it may even cause a decrease of learning from students if not properly used. I think it would be better if one college student-one laptop. A college student has a higher sense of responsibility than a child. Technology, if not used responsibly could be a problem.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 01:06 PM
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Let us remember that this topic is about the "One Laptop Per Child" Project.
The laptop was invented to boost the education of those in rural areas and underdeveloped countries. It was specially aim to educated and improve the capabilities of these school-goers in order that they can improve their own country's future someday.
The laptop is ALMOST limited to studying alone. It comes with programs such as word editors, internet browsers, code editors, and not forgetting some entertainment programs that can poke curiosity and boost creativity such as a puzzle game and an instrument emulator.
Its Operation System (OS) is specially design for education. Therefore, without a doubt, it serves its whole purpose, that is to educate.
Moreover extra programs can only be installed after it has been allowed to be distributed by the programmers and creators of this project.
Nevertheless, one has to know that not having a proper or no internet connection at all is no boundary to education. This laptop still functions as an educational tool with or without the internet.
For more info on the Programs available on this OS please visit the Official Homepage of the OLPC Project at http://laptop.org
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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Laptops are handy and no dought a quick and easy way to get information.
I agree with Jerome Bactol in saying that perhaps college students having laptops would be better. Younger children really need to be learning the basic times tables and thier "ABC's" before using computers, but that doesnt mean the Laptop idea cant be used to help children learning these.
I do think the idea of each child having access to a laptop is a great idea but needs to be used in balance with teachers writting on the whiteboard, not just using a screen.
Another point is that one laptop per child means a huge amount of laptops, and may cause problem with so many people trying to connect to the internet at ounce, again as long as theres a balance with 'pen and paper' learning I think its a good idea.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 09:18 PM
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right! This project has been carried out in VietNam by intel and vietnam administration. It has gotten positive feedback. This project has brought an great opportunity for poor vietnamese children to approach the world of understanding and knowledge. They are considering to expand this project throughout country.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 28, 2009 - 10:20 PM
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I think it's an incredible concept.
But technology (laptops) are a tool. And it's no good having a tool unless you know how to effectively use it!
I think that educating teachers on how to use the laptops in their teaching is a lot more important than just having laptops thrown into a school or community. And the technical support is another critical aspect to the programme.
The opportunity here is huge, but it's a lot more of a 'complete package' than just a one off drop of laptops into a school.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 29, 2009 - 12:20 AM
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paivaspol wrote:
I saw a project called "One Laptop Per Child" on the internet recently. Let's discuss how you the project will help children in education? I think it will expand learning for poor children definitely because it will make the children can easily reach information which there are lots of them on the internet. Moreover, this will provide opportunities for children to be more globalized too. How do you think about the project?
Of course it will have great impact. But we need to understand just giving the laptop to the children is not enough. We have to develop many more interactive software, online platforms to get the best out of it.
Please share your ideas here http://discuss.tigweb.org/thread/37449
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Re: Do you think that the project
April 29, 2009 - 12:27 AM
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I was picturing myself in Microsoft Seminar a year ago, when Bill Gates actually came to Jakarta to gave a lecture on how technologies provide efficiencies towards education.
He also mention this project, as a part of his obligation (microsoft, in general) to people who had been work with him in the company. He also mention that by increasing awareness on global world, using laptop as tools, he could make uneducated people, especially in Indonesia, to understand the means of technologies not as 'expensive stuff for rich people' but more of 'useful stuff that you could also have'.
For me the program is actually beneficial. I mean, not all people could afford laptop. And even though they already have PC in their home, do you want to carry PC around?
Unfortunately, the project didn't provide sufficient info on how people could get, and how they're going to use it.
Is there any government cooperation in it? Are we need to have certain degree of education so that the use of this tool will be as effective as it projected? And how about the people? Are they ready to get a laptop, know how to use it, and not selling it for their own needs, especially primary needs like food, and so on?
What do you think, guys?
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 29, 2009 - 02:39 AM
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This project could benefit the children of the developing world with their education. Since these children don't have much of an education, there is a lot that can be done to improve this and the "One Laptop Per Child" project could do well.
One concern I have is that, if all of these children get a laptop each and do most of their work using those laptops, they might forget about other ways of learning. If they spend too much time on them, they might become dependent on the laptops. We've seen how people can just sit in front of computers for hours, even if whatever they are doing is educational.
I agree with what Chaz said about getting that balance between using the laptops and using other methods such as whiteboards. If the children get a laptop straight away, then they'll have to learn about how to use the laptop before they can learn their basic facts.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 29, 2009 - 03:07 AM
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"One Laptop per Child" project is a good project because it will introduced children to the use of technology starting at a very young age. I can say that it is good, as long as the children will be properly guided on the specific use of the laptop, so that children will not get lost during the process that may compromise their safety in using the laptop.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 29, 2009 - 06:06 PM
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I think it will not be of a great benefit to a large extent. After all, there is so much a laptop can do. True, internet has resources to aid students' learning. However, the number of such useful sites is certainly overweighed by the number of sites which do not aid, if not harm, learning. I personally find many misleading sites from the internet. Also, laptops are not cheap. If the intention of providing laptop is to aid learning, then why don't books be provided instead? I agree with some of you that the laptops have the possibilities of being exploited or misused by some children. There is obviously no guarantee that the laptops will not be used for other purposes. However, the idea of this project is good. I understand that the intention is not to harm. In fact, it shows that the society is not indifferent but instead, cares about its members. Perhaps, the concept of this project can be a stepping stone for many more interesting and wonderful projects in the future. 
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Re: Do you think that the project
April 29, 2009 - 08:45 PM
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I think the One Laptop Per Child project will be very useful, especially for children who come from developing countries. As a student from Bangladesh, I can say that there are millions of poor children across hundreds of rural villages in Bangladesh who have never even touched a computer. It's interesting to note the contrast: one on the end of the world (in the west), computers and technology are spurring highly interactive, fun, educational learning communities, while in the south asian world, millions of children and young people have no idea about or the basic skills to work on, computers, let alone the internet. Therefore, the One Laptop Per Child project will be highly beneficial, especially to rural children here. However, one problem is the lack of constant power supply. How will these laptops be charged, especially considering the fact that most rural villages across Bangladesh are not even under the national electricity grid yet. Most of these villages don't have any electricity connection, so getting a new laptop, although would be a great benefit, sustaining it would be a problem if these laptops cannot be charged due to lack of electricity.
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Re: Do you think that the project "One Laptop Per Child" will help children in education?
April 30, 2009 - 07:33 AM
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"One Laptop per Child Project" is probably one of the effective way of connecting technology to the development of an individual. But, scenario like in Bangladesh, I think there are external factors that may have a direct impact in a project like this to be given focus first so that, One laptop per child will be a success.
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