Beverly Pearl

Excellent article.
Now, to get some re-vamped computers and volunteer instructors into places like homeless shelters and drop-in centres, at least. With Linux one can sometimes get quite a lot out of an out-dated computer. Some convincing of already burnt-out (and often underpaid) community workers that this won't add to their burgeoning responsibilities might be needed in some cases.
Perhaps if we show them the Ted Talk by Sugata Mitra:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
In real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, kids self-supervised themselves on computers and learned. Maybe there are adults who do not require much supervision ...

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