2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_11
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Sustainable Innovation Strategies in Education: OLPC Case Studies in Ethiopia and Uruguay

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“…must be rethought and readapted to the cultural context, avoiding giving a laptop the whole responsibility for the success of the project for school innovation." 19 With the current strategy of OLPC of merely giving the laptops to the governments, there is a lot of pressure on the laptops themselves. People expect the laptops to bring changes and to empower the children.…”
Section: A Blurry Visionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…must be rethought and readapted to the cultural context, avoiding giving a laptop the whole responsibility for the success of the project for school innovation." 19 With the current strategy of OLPC of merely giving the laptops to the governments, there is a lot of pressure on the laptops themselves. People expect the laptops to bring changes and to empower the children.…”
Section: A Blurry Visionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other researchers and writers critique the disparity between the mission goals and rhetoric of the OLPC program and the actual deployment and use of the XO laptops (Bhatta, 2008;Mangiatordi & Pischetola, 2010;Warschauer & Ames, M, 2010). First of all, there is a lack of independent research on how the hardware is used in educational settings, as well as appraisals of how the technology stands up to its declared five-year lifetime, since six years have passed since the first deployment of the current XO laptop in late 2007.…”
Section: Other Issuesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Come mostreremo nel seguito, il combinato disposto delle due proprietà fa sì che oggigiorno siano disponibili soluzioni informatiche che non agiscono soltanto da protesi funzionali (il grado zero delle tecnologie assistive, nella loro funzione compensativa di strumenti che permettono l'accesso al computer, come per esempio nel caso di tastiere espanse, puntatori alternativi al mouse o lettori di schermo), ma fungano anche da protesi sociali, configurandosi dunque non solo come amplificatori cognitivi, ma addirittura come amplificatori sociali (Mangiatordi & Pischetola, 2010), in grado di combattere la perdita di rilevanti opportunità informative, lavorative, educative e di partecipazione sociale e politica per le persone con disabilità (Bentivegna, 2009), ovvero la perdita di significative opportunità esistenziali (van Dijk, 2005).…”
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