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The site Dvice reported that the organization OLPC – One Laptop Per Child (One Laptop Per Child, in English) conducted an experiment where 1.000 tablets were delivered Motorola XOOM for children in a village in Ethiopia.
Instead of the traditional intermediation of local schools, the organization chose to deliver sealed, uninstructed boxes directly to children in the remote village, where the schooling rate is almost non-existent. The idea was, exactly, to challenge the common sense that this type of project only has a positive effect if applied to places where children study and already know how to read and write in English.
“We left the boxes with the tablets in the village. closed. Adhesive No instruction, not an instructor. I thought the kids would play with the boxes! After four minutes, a child not only opened the box, but found and used the on/off button. He had never seen an on/off button. He turned on the tablet. After five days, the children were using an average of 47 apps per day. After two weeks, they were singing children's songs (in English) in the village. And after five months, they hacked the Android. Some idiot in our organization or lab had disabled the cameras on the tablets! And the kids discovered that not only did the tablets have cameras, they also understood how to enable it.”
Although the report exaggerates the facts a little, for example, when it says that the children have never had with any language or that a small configuration to enable the camera could be called a “hack”, it is still impressive that the children managed to yes use (and have fun) with the tablets.
And, according to the report, it was not just children who benefited from the use of tablets. Previous studies of OLPC indicate that children who learn and improve their levels of schooling with the help of a laptop or tablet end up ing this knowledge on to their elders.
Source: 9to5Google e Dvice.
