Funny because the blackboard doesn't mention MS Word anywhere as far as I can tell, it mentions "Features of a word processing window" and it doesn't specifically look like MS Word either. This also makes me wonder what happened to the one Laptop per Child project [0], their G+ site was not posted on since November 2016. Is it really Microsoft Word that is going to be used by these students? Or will it be LibreOffice or Google Docs?
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Re: Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers
#12Sure, it's a nice gesture, but I'm wondering how they will solve the electricity problem in Ghana with desktop computers?
Everyone keeps pointing out electricity but first off, not all of Ghana is suffering from a power shortage. Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before.
Re: Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers
#13Sure, it's a nice gesture, but I'm wondering how they will solve the electricity problem in Ghana with desktop computers?
Everyone keeps pointing out electricity but first off, not all of Ghana is suffering from a power shortage. Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before.
>Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before.
Not it's not. I've seem this mentality and it's very destructive.
Things need too be done properly else they make things worse.
Computers cost a lot to run, electricity costs, they need people who know the pedagogy, they need people to repair them after a teacher puts in a lot of work getting lessons plans ready.
Life isn't a movie. They won't have amazing teachers and amazing students who band together to just get stuff working.
Even with this amazing teacher, will the admin allow him to teacher computers all day to all the other classes? Probably not. This is not how schools are structured. He'll have other responsibilities. And possibly more important ones at that.
The ""Hole in the Wall Computer" was a failure. We need to learn from these mistakes and move forward. (It's a clicked 50 year old mistake so I'm not sure how though)
[Edit] And if they do have electricity like you say then why - "He does have a computer at home, "but the battery is too weak to send it to school," he says."
Re: Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers
#14Funny because the blackboard doesn't mention MS Word anywhere as far as I can tell, it mentions "Features of a word processing window" and it doesn't specifically look like MS Word either. This also makes me wonder what happened to the one Laptop per Child project [0], their G+ site was not posted on since November 2016. Is it really Microsoft Word that is going to be used by these students? Or will it be LibreOffice…
Look at the title bar.
Re: Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers
#15Funny because the blackboard doesn't mention MS Word anywhere as far as I can tell, it mentions "Features of a word processing window" and it doesn't specifically look like MS Word either. This also makes me wonder what happened to the one Laptop per Child project [0], their G+ site was not posted on since November 2016. Is it really Microsoft Word that is going to be used by these students? Or will it be LibreOffice…
Look at the title bar.
Oops, you're right.
Re: Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers
#16Sure, it's a nice gesture, but I'm wondering how they will solve the electricity problem in Ghana with desktop computers?
Everyone keeps pointing out electricity but first off, not all of Ghana is suffering from a power shortage. Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before.
I think the parent meant why desktop computers instead of laptops.
Re: Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone keeps pointing out electricity but first off, not all of Ghana is suffering from a power shortage. Secondly, even if they can have it on one hour a day it's better than what came before.
I think the parent meant why desktop computers instead of laptops.
Right. Sorry, I thought it was more obvious.
My friends who live in Ghana go days without being able to access the Internet. It's actually a big problem.