Peruvian Teachers Begin OLPC Training

eldavojohn writes "Today was the first day that Peruvian teachers from remote villages began training to use the OLPC in their day-to-day activities. From the article: 'Success of OLPC now depends largely on frontline teachers and, of course, parents and kids. Peru's effort, if successful, would be a model for other nations. In the training now under way, teachers must become versed not only in how to operate and maintain the laptops, but also in how to do their jobs within a newly laptop-centric educational model. The laptops will contain some 115 books, including textbooks, novels, and poetry, as well as art and music programs, cameras, and other goodies. What many of these kids won't get is Internet access: about 90 percent of the villages lack it, and may not get it anytime soon.'"

Wow, new term: "sneaker net"

[wurp]

I love how they pitch the term sneaker-net (to mean carrying thumb drives from somewhere that has internet access back to the school) as if Walter Bender invented the term:

by what OLPC president Walter Bender calls "sneaker-net."

Re:Meanwhile, two countries over

[Mr. Roadkill]

"In Soviet Venezuela" jokes abound.

A Peruvian gaucho named Bruno
Said, "There is one thing I do know.
A woman is fine,
and a sheep is divine,
but a LLAMA is Numero Uno !"


Baaa!