The criticism of One Laptop Per Child, in cartoon form
This from OLPC News is great:
A data-point against the idea of digital natives
The concept of the digital native bothers me for some reason. A tiny little bit of it might be "you kids get off my lawn" curmudgeonliness. Mainly it's
“Technology… is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute.”
From Kentaro Toyama's article in the Boston Review: Technology—no matter how well designed—is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute. [via Morgan
OLPC and unsupported vs. supported learning
I recently read an interesting, critical article looking at the One Laptop Per Child program and its assumptions about computers and learning. Coauthors Mark Warschauer and Morgan Ames
For toddlers, “A banana and an iPad are two things that have always been there”
The Guardian's Thomas Jones has an essay about techno-toddlers. To be perfectly honest, I couldn't figure out what it was about: kids use adult technology, companies are starting
Once again, XKCD makes an excellent point
As always. The underlying point that today's parents (like me) grew up with MTV, video games, computers, and other weapons of mass distraction is a good one. For
A brief rant about babies and technology
Watch this delightful video of a baby being confused by a magazine. (You've probably already seen it, come to think of it.) It's been commented on, linked to,
Technology vs. the brain: Susan Greenfield on distraction, cognition, socialization, privacy
The Mark, a Canadian magazine publishing on technology and culture, has an interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Oxford Institute for the Future of the Mind