I’ve followed OLPC for many years, and can only regard it as a well-intentioned charity with terrible real-world results along any metric you’d care to name. Negroponte is now a name with very negative associations in my mind. What you’re reading is marketing for the program.
Yes, though I don’t have the links, since I don’t save the links to things I dislike. In general, mismanagement of the project and a belief that “technology” is somehow equivalent to “education”.
I’ve followed OLPC for many years, and can only regard it as a well-intentioned charity with terrible real-world results along any metric you’d care to name. Negroponte is now a name with very negative associations in my mind. What you’re reading is marketing for the program.
Did you read anything in particular to come to think that?
Yes, though I don’t have the links, since I don’t save the links to things I dislike. In general, mismanagement of the project and a belief that “technology” is somehow equivalent to “education”.
I see the Criticism section on Wikipedia is several pages long.