Re:Who is Dvorak? (Score 1)

I would love to see the OLPC project working out. Unfortunately, when I went to a Brazilian school that was testing this product some months ago, it wasn't what I saw. Despite the poverty, not everyone who goes to a public school in Brazil is poor, so most of the students already had a PC at home, and they didn't care about the new laptop very much. They liked the idea of having a laptop of their own, and they seemed to be using it to cut classes, I mean, having to choose between a PC and the OLPC, they would prefer the PC (faster, familiar OS), but when the choice was about having a traditional class or doing whatever they wanted with the laptop, they then used the laptop. I was disappointed. Teachers weren't prepared at all. Most of them didn't know what to do with the laptop, some of them didn't even like the concept, and others were trying to use it as part of the "educating by projects" proposal, which means "choose a topic and find as many info as you can about it in the internet; after that, you can brwose freely!". So I don't think the OLPC is a bad idea at all; it just needs some improvements. One of them would be to educate the teachers and inform them of what is going on, not only telling them "you were gladly chosen to participate, now you must smile and do it, even if you don't understand what it is about".