alt Hacker NewsMany people thought that giving kids computers would make the smarter and more generally educated, not just give them better skills with computers.
Many people thought that giving kids computers would make the smarter and more generally educated, not just give them better skills with computers.
Many people though that giving kids entire new ways to access knowledge and cooperate on their projects would make them smarter and more generally educated.
And honestly, if you think that's stupid, I'm not really interested on whatever else you think on the subject. It happened to not work for several reasons, some of them mistakes from the OLPC project, but insisting it's an inevitable result is just uninformed blabber.