mrcgran writes “The Chicago Tribune is running a feel-good story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in Peru. ‘Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the daylight dew in that hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. At breakfast, they’re already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night,

they’re dozing off in front of them — whether they’ve managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the one biggest order to moment — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed.’”

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

Orginal post by ScuttleMonkey