<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Camille. This is really interesting. <div><br></div><div>I was just looking into OPLC nostalgically a few weeks ago and thinking about it as a clear example solutionism. </div><div><br></div><div>These lines stood out to me from Wikipedia:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"The organization has been accused of simply giving underprivileged children laptops and 'walking away.' Some critics claim this 'drive-by' implementation model was the official strategy of the project. While the organisation has learning teams dedicated to support and working with teachers, Negroponte has said in response to this criticism that 'You actually can' give children a connected laptop and walk away, noting experiences with self-guided learning.</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-good.is_30-0" class="gmail-reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#cite_note-good.is-30" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">[30]</a>"</sup><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Interesting to learn that maintenance was at least part of the project's model, though. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks for sharing. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Lee</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Camille E. Acey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:connect@camilleacey.com" target="_blank">connect@camilleacey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<p>"OLPC wasn’t just a laptop, it was a philosophy. Negroponte insisted that kids needed to personally own the computers, so they’d be invested in maintaining them....The laptop wasn’t just tough, it was so tough you could throw it across a room — a feature he’d happily demonstrate in interviews."</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2018/<wbr>4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-<wbr>laptop-education-where-is-it-<wbr>now</a></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div class="m_-3786134849561342643pre" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Camille E. Acey</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> <a href="http://camilleacey.com" target="_blank">http://camilleacey.com</a></span></div>
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