[IAEP] Sugar success

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Yama

My measure is whether the laptops are in the box or in the hands of the 
children. I am working with a school in Rwanda where the laptops are 
normally in a charging rack (same as in a box).

Sadly, the laptops are more often in the charging racks.

One problem is that the school administration believes that the laptops 
are to enable the students to learn "ICT", what used to be called, 
'computer literacy'. Each class (4th, 5th and 6th) has one period 
(45min) of ICT per week.

OLPC Rwanda, for reasons not of their own making, uses the laptops for 
'events', such as a 'Etoys' camp. Most schools in Rwanda are able to get 
the laptops out to demonstrate for visitors.

It is depressing.

However, I try to remember that use of computers to support instruction 
is really new. While computers have been in primary schools since the 
Apple II, educators choose to view the computer as the object of 
instruction not the means.

Yours,

Tony