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Hacker NewsEvidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
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Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
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Paolo RedaelliEvidence from the #OneLaptopPerChild Program in Rural #Peru - #Slashdot
"Following students over time, we find no significant effects on primary and secondary completion, academic performance in secondary school, or university enrollment. Survey data indicate that **computer access** significantly improved students' computer skills but **not their cognitive skills**"
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/1642202/evidence-from-the-one-laptop-per-child-program-in-rural-peru
"Following students over time, we find no significant effects on primary and secondary completion, academic performance in secondary school, or university enrollment. Survey data indicate that **computer access** significantly improved students' computer skills but **not their cognitive skills**"
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/1642202/evidence-from-the-one-laptop-per-child-program-in-rural-peru
Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru - Slashdot
The abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 Peruvian rural primary schools. We use administrative data on academic performance and grade progression over 10 years to estimate the long-run effects of increa...
Andrés Beyo¿Kién diseñó el nuebo logo de ‘ #iVoox ’, Ilon Mosk? 🙄
El anterior estaba bien, no entiendo por ké tenían ke plajiar el de ‘ #OneLaptopPerChild ’.
Scarab (Sarah)I remember volunteering with #OneLaptopPerChild #OLPC and the effort to figure out and work with Wikipedia on how to get a downloadable copy of Wikipedia (or at least some of it) that could go on the little green laptops that might not have regular access to the Internet out in remote areas.
Eliot LashI know Ramy from the #OneLaptopPerChild community. He told me he has a multimedia degree from Palestine University and 10 years of experience in electronics, medical equipment, electric/hybrid cars and electric bikes, maintenance and design of electronic devices, and solar energy, CNC & 3d printing, and PC maintenance/programming. He is willing to test to show his expertise in any of these subjects. Can you help connect him with anyone that can help? 2/
Sugar LabsThe Sugar Labs community lost long-time contributor Mel Chua. We will miss her dearly, and our hearts go out to her family and friends.
Read more about Mel:
* https://lwn.net/Articles/984213/
* https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/mel-chua/
The video is now up at https://youtube.com/live/hR7xitp4J74 #sugarlabs #olpc #onelaptopperchild #gnu #linux #freesoftware #education
Bob StepnoIs an #OLPC #OneLaptopPerChild original "XO" considered #RetroComputing yet? Still useful to someone?
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