Story: The $100 laptop - don't get carried away
Posted by: Irvin Gomez (Thursday 17 November 2005, 8:57 PM)
I couldn't agree more with the author.
Besides the technical challenge of mass-producing this devices, responsible governmemts will want to ask how this computer/PDA will be best used in the classrom (is there any available educational software for it?), the costs of maintenance, distribution, internet access, etc.
The final price tag will be significantly higher than US$100, but nobody knows by how much.
Finally, there's the issue of wether kids will benefit from using this device. The Maine, USA, experiment that Negroponte cites has not produced any documentable benefit (and that's not an opinion, that's a fact derived from actual student performance testing done by the USA government).
Poor nations are best adviced to take a look at the details.
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