<div dir="ltr">Have to admit to being a bit surprised that for a list serve that is called "Its an education project", all the comments are about the device.<div><br></div><div>IMHO, the biggest challenge (in the developing world) is how to make the giant step change from moving from a resource poor teaching and learning environment to a resource abundant environment (enabled by ICTs). This is very different from what happens in developed countries.</div><div><br></div><div>I see huge potential in this, but nobody seems to be commenting on it. They still seem to focus on the device (even if the debate is about one-to-one or not, it is still device centric)</div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2016 at 03:14, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 June 2016 at 11:11, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I thought this was the best line:</div><div><br></div>"These [failures] tended to be in school districts that treated computers like magical devices that would solve educational problems merely through their distribution, without sufficient planning on how they could best be deployed to improve learning."<div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">I added this to the vision of what SL should be</div><br><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Vision_proposal_2016&type=revision&diff=99052&oldid=99047" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Vision_proposal_2016&type=revision&diff=99052&oldid=99047</a><br>
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