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Saturday, January 06, 2007
  Children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools


Nicholas Negroponte ran MIT’s legendary Media Lab before founding the One Laptop Per Child project. Stewart Brand captured the culture and ideas that were so far ahead of their time we are still waiting for some of them to reach the mainstream.

One of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

I consider that criminal, because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools.
—Nicholas Negroponte, via CNN and Jeff Atwood.

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