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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Ethiopian kids teach themselves using only tablet computers (SmartPlanet)

"The results of the non-profit’s experiment were more than encouraging, OLPC [One Laptop Per Child]’s founder, Nicholas Negroponte told audience members at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference last week.

"“I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch…powered it up,” he said. “Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android.”"

Full article: Ethiopian kids teach themselves using only tablet computers