{"id":31025,"date":"2012-10-31T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/darn-clever-these-earthlings.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:51:13","slug":"darn-clever-these-earthlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/darn-clever-these-earthlings.html","title":{"rendered":"Darn clever, these Earthlings"},"content":{"rendered":"

And yet I have end-users who literally need to be told to "check if it's plugged in" …<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Shannon Turlington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fascinating story: Children in two remote Ethiopian villages are given tablets in English, with no instruction, and teach themselves how to use them.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. \u201cI thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch \u2026 powered it up. 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,\u201d Negroponte said. \u201cSome idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.\u201d #olpc<\/a> \u00a0 #africa<\/a> \u00a0 #technology<\/a> \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And yet I have end-users who literally need to be told to "check if it's plugged in" … Reshared post from +Shannon Turlington Fascinating story: Children in two remote Ethiopian villages are given tablets in English, with no instruction, and teach themselves how to use them. 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