Brazil will be joining its cousin Portugal in deploying Intel’s Classmate PC in the classroom. Cnet has an adorable story of a Brazilian foundation, Fundação Bradesco, that has introduced the tiny laptops at a school in Campinas. What’s different about this particular program and other is that the students don’t get to keep the Classmates, as the surrounding neighborhood is still a little dangerous for students to be walking around with laptops.
It’s also encouraging to see the folks in charge of the school admit that the laptops aren’t the end-all, be-all when it comes to education. (Chemistry students still benefit from mixing chemicals, for example.)
Ordem e progresso, sim. Isto, e uma equipa de futebol que ja não funciona.
This is cool. But I would like to ask a question. Do those students get those laptops for free?
http://www.KidTechGuru.blogspot.com
Yes, Kid Tech Guru, the kids get the laptops for free, but they don’t own them, they use them at school. Fundação Bradesco pays the bills for them, and the school is a public school.
I’m from Brazil, my home is near the foundation. It is a very important social work.
*equipE de futebol.
equipA is from Portugal’s portuguese. ;P