Help us ask the right questions
If all goes to plan, I'll be talking to Nicholas Negroponte of the One Laptop Per Child Project next week. (You can hear a 2007 BBC interview in the player above)
The project aims: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning
Currently there are around 500,000 of the laptops in use by children worldwide.
But the project has not escaped some controversy and criticism. I want you to help me ask the right questions in the interview. If there's an issue you'd like raised send an email to ipm-at-bbc.co.uk or leave a comment.
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Why did the project management fail to strike a deal with the main Computer manufacturers which has lead to the Intel spanner in the works!
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Is there any screen magnifying or screen reading software for this computer? How will blind and visually impaired pupils be able to use this? It is Lunux based so this type of "Access Software" should be available. I am use Ubuntu Linux on occation at home which comes with a screen magnifier/screen reader built in. Is it possible to download from the servers used normally for software updates screen magnifiers/screen readers? I am assuming that the Linux OS works similarly to other Linuxes in that there is a distribution specific server that serves new/updated programs either in the Add/Remove programs system or using something like apt-get.
I have seen no comments about this issue in relation to the OLPC.
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I am always surprised on seeing "ask right question" because how to decide it - 'before' getting the answer. Only after seeing both, question and answer, one can decide what is right / what is wrong / both are correct / wrong.
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