OLPC: The Educational Philosophy Controversy
Steve Hamm,
Business Week,
Jun 18, 2008
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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