Illiterate Kids In India Figure Out Computers
from the interesting-experiments dept
A very interesting article about an experiment in India where people set up an outdoor computer near slums. Illiterate kids found the computers and started playing with them. They figured out what was going on pretty quickly, and it didn't take them long to figure out how to connect to the internet, draw pictures, download MP3s and games. Everywhere they set up one of these computers the results were almost exactly the same.
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wow - not
To top it off, the article ends with a paragraph that first says that computers are not intutative and hard to use, then follows up with the statement that kids that can't speak english were able to figure them out. What's wrong with that logic???
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