OLPC Project Puts Tablets In The Hands Of Formerly Illiterate Children With Amazing Results

The story sounded far-fetched: OLPC researchers, working with a team of technicians in Ethiopia, created a special "hut" covered in solar panels where the children of a few distant towns could go to recharge some toys they were given. The toys were boxed Motorola Xoom tablets and every child between the age of four and eight got one. The researchers were expecting the children to play with the boxes and potentially open them in the first week but instead they turned them on in less than an hour and a few months later were modifying the settings and singing ABC songs. It was, at once, a triumph of technology and of the human capacity to learn.

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