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Story: India ditches 'potentially harmful' $100 laptop plan
Posted by: ashgene (Tuesday 1 August 2006, 6:29 PM)
The decision is to be highly appreciated. Children could go with a more mentally challenging tasks like abacus and mental arthimetic and developing language skills models than a machine that will bypass thinking and provide shortcuts. Computer education is a must but the grounding for this comes from core mathematics, physics and language skills which has to be developed. Most so this is an age where security and parental control are not yet matured, a laptop at a younger age may make children vulnerable to bad elements.
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