One laptop per child generativity

The One Lap Top Per Child Project provides a 100 dollar laptop to children in 3rd world countries. The creators envisioned the XO as a revolution in education; based on constructionism, which is the reading and restating of facts by students.

The XO as a tethered device. The XO is preprogrammed to some extent, it is slightly  tethered because of the safety breaches it inhabits to protect the children who will be using the devices.

The XO as a generative device. The XO project is foundationally generative, because it allows for kid's to create and tinker with the laptop. The project would give the kids the laptop and let them do as they pleased with no strings attached.


 * This quote embodies the XO project: "combine hope of the internet era with the hard lesson of its second phase", combines tethered and generative technologies together
 * Story of the XO is the story of the generative pattern
 * planting an idea that no one has come up with in hopes that it will generate change

Skepticism
 * Some skeptics of the XO say they are scared of the generative pattern as a whole. They know the risks of this platform and forget the optimistic progression the XO can make.
 * They also state that having a laptop does not mean the child has clean water or medicine. This project will only bring resentment to children who did not know better until receiving the laptop.


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