Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponteis a Greek American architect. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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This is not teaching as we know it; only part of our learning comes from teaching. Much of it comes from curiosity. These are tools that can help cultivate that learning process.
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So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it.
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The idea is to have it play many roles so that the child takes it home, uses it for play, study. The whole theory is that learning is seamless, it's not something you just do at school.
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The idea is that it fulfils many roles. It is the whole theory that learning is seamless,
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And what's really frightening, or interesting, depending on your perspective, is that the change from now will even be faster and bigger than we're expecting.
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Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,
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You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France,
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We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,
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I am always asked in my travels through the developing world: 'If this is such a good idea, why isn't America doing it?' ... Well, now they are.
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Most people don't realize that common sense is the real thing computers are missing,
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The plan is for the $100 laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data.
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Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one's studies. Maine's program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.