One Laptopdance Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation sent a pilot shipment to a school in Nigeria recently. The students promptly began learning. Assiduously.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.
NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children's laptops.
"Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials," NAN said.
An OLPC spokesperson told the media that the laptops would now be fitted with filters. Frankly, I'm surprised they weren't. (Note, I'm not making fun of the OLPC project here, merely pointing out that there are things one should expect from curious children - which is why my kids have strict rules on computer usage. As well as frequent inspections.)
Geek Stuff, World news | Gaius Friday, 20 July , 2007
By Purple Avenger, Friday, 20 July , 2007 @ 11:22 pm
School kids need laptops like I need the plague.