Jonathan Zittrain on Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child Project

by Giovanni Glass April 25, 2008 12:34 pm Permalink
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Source: bigthink, amazon

Jonathan Zittrain speaking in 2008. This image is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.

Jonathan Zittrain, American Internet law professor at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford, discusses in his new book, The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It, about technology and the Internet. On page 235 of his book, he concludes with a chapter about the OLPC Foundation and XO-1 laptop. An excerpt:

In other words, XO has embraced the procrastination principle that is woven through generative technologies. To the chagrin and discomfort of most educational academics following the project, there is little focus on specific educational outcomes or metrics. There are no firm plans to measure usage of the laptops, or to correlate changes in test scores with their deployment and use. Instead, the idea is to create an infrastructure that is both simple and generative, stand back, and see what happens, fixing most major substantive problems only as they arise, rather than anticipating them from the start.

BigThink.com let us know that they did an interview with Professor Zittrain. Here is a clip of him talking about the OLPC project.

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