Nicholas Negroponte

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Ethiopian Kids Hack OLPCs In 5 Months With Zero Instruction

Evan Ackerman | DVICE | October 30, 2012

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa. Read More »

Given Tablets But No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

David Talbot | MIT Technology Review | October 29, 2012

With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. Read More »