One Laptop Per Child and Generation YES

Cross posted from the Generation YES blog...

I was recently asked to do a guest blog on the OLPC News website (not affiliated with the OLPC project.) OLPC News tries to be an “independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion” of the OLPC project. Although it skews towards skepticism, they do try to be fair overall. They asked me to share some insight on how our Generation YES experience might shed some light on the OLPC project, since both of them are rooted in the same child-centered, constructivist philosophy. I did so in this guest blog post on their site.

I realized it would be a somewhat hostile audience, but it’s worth it to get the message out.

So far the comments have been mostly nasty, but pretty easy to refute, since some people apparently have too much time on their hands to find out-of-context things to post. It's the first time I've every had to deal with any negative (and openly hostile) comments on a blog, so this is a learning experience for me!