This is the comment by N. Negroponte to silence the objections of those who sees no feasible way to mass computerization of school. Given that I share most of opinions and all the work of this visionary founder of the OLPC (One Laptop erp Child) who celebrated in September another extraordinary success with the delivery of 400,000 PCs in Uruguayan children, I can not just accept his theory of the use of the computer (I know better from using ICT word that he is unseemly and disconnected from everyday practice and from ' imagery for the digital generation) shared a light heart by Faggioli that the ADI has translated and commented Negroponte the intervention of the IDB Forum.
Indeed I must say that I am astonished by the lightness with which he proposes such a theory, because many research and authoritative advice across the ocean (AAL, for example) have amply demonstrated that even though the children are using the PC and the Internet daily and for more hours, this does not mean means that they are able to benefit from the potential it offers for achieving necessary skills for the 21st century.
Being able to search, validate, organize information available on the web means to carry out the successive steps of type skills bloom and has nothing to do with knowing how to press buttons, because it requires cognitive skills that need to be developed by experts.
The view simply irrelevant information, or unverified, but failed to adequately analyze or organize, to synthesize them or use them for creative purposes does not prepare children to face the challenges of technologically interconnected world where competition is global and the pace evolution of technology is the new USB 3.0 at up to 25 gigabytes every 70 seconds.
Ben is a computer for a child, I wish I could see that day does not mean that it will sound the digital divide, but it risks creating a new illiteracy masquerading as a technological innovation.
A very sad prospect unless you provide trainers to train properly!
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