[Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote:

> I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy,  but a toy for the
> wrong follks, folks who have enough toys,  rooms full of them,   
> lost in
> their toys, blinking and whizzing  hynoptic.

Would you agree that the software (and not the greenish toy-like  
hardware) would make all the difference between that little machine  
being a toy and it being a serious platform for education? Why, then,  
are so few folks working on actual educational software for it? So  
far, you can count the specifically educational activities on the  
OLPC on one hand. Even if you lost most fingers.

- Bert -