Re: [xmca] Given Tablets But No Teachers, Ethiopian Kids Teach Themselves

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Hopefully Negroponte is attending to such questions, but I would not bet on
it. They want to leap frog history. Hard to jump that high and document the
movement at the same time!!
mike

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>wrote:

> Mike,
> It would great if we could do on the spot research of this situation as
> well as the hole in the wall context. What precisely is the tablet
> mediating?
> Carol
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> On 31 October 2012 18:13, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Interesting story, Peter.
>>
>> I found it interesting that the "learn to read" precedes "reading to
>> learn"
>> formula used in the article.
>>
>> Not at all clear that a print-literacy notion of what reading is and what
>> the ordering of sense making through graphic symbols and representations
>> is
>> appropriate for what people hope is going on there.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/tablets-ethiopian-children/
>> >
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