The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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Nicholas Negroponte
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About Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 book Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Nicholas NegroponteLearning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the…
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the…
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.