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I was surprised to read the article my friend Greg sent me today.

“This week, teachers from remote rural villages in Peru are gathering in several regional cities to learn how to do their jobs via One Laptop per Child (OLPC) machines distributed to their pupils. Peru is now engaging in the world's most ambitious OLPC deployment: some 400,000 machines are headed to the Andean nation's poorest and remotest schools--about 6,000 schools in all. The first 25,000 of these machines are now being inventoried in a Lima warehouse and are poised for shipment to the interior.”

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22041/

400,000 OLPC in PERU!!!

I've heard and read people criticizing this project so much since it launched... But to see something like this happening in my own country, where there're so many people lacking access to better tools for education, as well as "inspiration" to keep going, I can see this as something that could help us move forward. Hopefully it will :)

Read more about their pilot program in Arahuay, Canta:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight.

This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

Un nino japones llega a USA. Es primer dia de clasds y la maestra presenta a Susuki a los chicos de sexto grado. La maestar dice: "Empecemos repasando un poco de historia americana. Quien dijo: Denme la libertad o denme la muerte?" La clase calla, excepto Susuki: "Patrick Henry, 1775" "Muy bien, Quien dijo: El gobierno del pueblo, para el pueblo no debe desparacer de la faz de la tierra". De nuevo, ninguna respuesta de la clase, salvo Susuki: "Abrahan Lincoln, 1863".

La maestra dice: "chicos, deberia darles verguenza. Susuki es nuevo en nuestro pais y sabe mas de nuestra historia que ustedes" La maestra alcanza a escuchar un susurro: "A la mierda con esos malditos japoneses!".

Enojada pregunta: "Queien dijo eso?" Nuevamente Susuki se levanta y dice : General Mac Arthur, 1942 y Lee Lacocca, 1982".

La clase queda muda y un chico dice: "Voy a vomitar" La maestra irritada: "Quien dijo eso?" y Susuki dice "George Bush padre al primer ministro japones, 1991"

Un alumno furioso grita al japones: "Chupame esta!" Susuki, saltando en su silla, le dice a la maestra: "Bill Clinton a Monica Lewinsky, 1997"

La maestra se desmaya, cunde el caos. Mientras los chicos se arremolinan alrededor de la desvanecida profesora, uno de ellos exclama: "Mierda, Y ahora como salimos de esta?"..Susuki reponde:"Bush, inmediatamente despues de la invasion de Irak, 2003"

Por ultimo, un nino le grita al japones, "Porque no te callas?" A lo que Susuki responde: "Juan Carlos, rey de Espana, en Chile, 10 de noviembre de 2007, a Hugo Chavez, presidente de Venezuela"

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