OLPC As Constructivist Education Reform

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OLPC As Constructivist Education Reform
The neat thing about OLPC is that it works, we can see it working, and the people who insist time after time "it doesn't work" really have nothing else to say. And what is key to this is, as this post says, it is the end of the 'colonial' educational system (OK, maybe not, not completely, and a lot of water has to pass under the bridge, but you get the idea). "We don't even know what would be suitable for free peoples. Not for lack of trying, but because those who have investigated the issues have been effectively marginalized and largely go unheard. Until now. Now their work is embodied in the OLPC XO-1 laptop". More...