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Stephen Downes

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Generally cogent discussion of the issues surrounding the One Laptop Per Child and the constructivist software it shipped with, Sugar. It's a bit ironic to see them say that the deployment of a constructivist system is a form of colonialism when the alternative is to load Windows on the system. I would also say that it's not exactly true, as implied by the author, that constructivism has not been tested in practice. It certainly has, I would say, with good results. Via OLPC News, which discusses the article at length.

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