The $100 laptop closer to reality

Anthony Gabrielson agabriel at home.tzo.org
Thu Sep 29 16:39:29 EDT 2005



On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ben Jackson wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Brendan wrote:
> >
> > Its not about tests - its about knowledge.  The kids these are target
> > towards have nothing in the line of text books.  This could give them
> > something.  Forget the test, education has never been about the test.  Its
> > about the knowledge.
> 
> Not in our brave new post-MCAS standardized testing world.
> 
> (FYI: I agree with the concept of MCAS, but the entire way it was done was
> wrong on sooooo many levels)

These laptops are going to be focused on third world countries without 
MCAS tests.  For those countries its about the knowledge.

Anthony



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