[IAEP] can OLPC be applied to receiving information from the user population?

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Was reading 'Don't! (The secret of self-control)' (by Jonah Lehrer) 
in the May 18 issue of 'The New Yorker'.  In that article, a 
psychology experiment (developed I believe by a team headed by John 
Jonides at the University of Michigan) is described:  Subjects are 
shown a list of four random words, two in red text and two in blue 
text.  After reading the words, they are told to forget the blue 
words and remember the red words.  Later, the subjects are shown a 
stream of words, and for each are asked if it was a word they were 
told to remember.  [The scientists are counting how often incorrect 
(blue) words are remembered by individual subjects.]

Seems to me "homework" consists of a teacher handing out work - the 
pupil returns the result - the teacher evaluates what was returned. 
  Here we have a very similar situation - a scientist hands out work 
- the subject returns the result - the scientist evaluates what was 
returned.


That leads me to think that 'Activities' being written for the OLPC 
could be applied not only to "pushing" of (e.g., educational) 
materials out to OLPC users, but also to "pulling" of feedback back 
to those who prepare the (e.g., experimental) materials.

mikus