http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/11/27/that-little-green-thing/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:34:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/11/27/that-little-green-thing/#comment-44138 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:08:54 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/11/27/that-little-green-thing/#comment-44138 [...] So I poked around the wiki a bit especially the sections relevant to Etoys and Educators in order to figure out what the project thinks about the possibilities of this hardware. To continue from my earlier rant on OLPC in India, the OLPC India team does need to figure out the way forward beyond the pilot (at Khairat). The pilot can teach valuable lessons about the feasibility of the hardware, the corner cases of mesh networking or even the applicability and usage of the hardware in the pedagogy. But taking those lessons and extrapolating them into much larger, distributed deployments is going to require a heavy dose of community (or capacity) building. This means doing much more than just being a deployment/services unit for the project as a whole [...] […] So I poked around the wiki a bit especially the sections relevant to Etoys and Educators in order to figure out what the project thinks about the possibilities of this hardware. To continue from my earlier rant on OLPC in India, the OLPC India team does need to figure out the way forward beyond the pilot (at Khairat). The pilot can teach valuable lessons about the feasibility of the hardware, the corner cases of mesh networking or even the applicability and usage of the hardware in the pedagogy. But taking those lessons and extrapolating them into much larger, distributed deployments is going to require a heavy dose of community (or capacity) building. This means doing much more than just being a deployment/services unit for the project as a whole […]

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