One Laptop Per Child

[Lindsey Andrews]

I've been a little slack getting together a longer post on the awesome talks I saw at HOPE this weekend, but in the meantime, I thought I'd put up a link to a rather scathing criticism of the OLPC program, a project whose initial idea seemed good, but whose implementation has been -- according to many involved -- deeply problematic.

You can read what former director of security architecture at OLPC, Ivan Krstic, has to say about OLPC and the best way to rethink the philosophy of teaching technology here.

Hopefully I'll follow up soon with thoughts on the combined presentation featuring info from Krstic and Jillian "Gus" Andrews: "Hacking the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: Dispatches from the Field of Educational Technology."