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August 16, 2010

Negroponte: You really can give a kid a laptop

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by Ina Fried, CNet news.com

One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte said that in two years the company has managed to rebuff one of the biggest critiques of his effort–the idea that you can’t just give a kid a laptop connected to the Internet and walk away. “You can, you actually can,” Negroponte said, speaking on a panel at the Techonomy conference here. “Kids in the remotest places,” he said, “not only teach themselves how to read and write, but most importantly–and we found this in Peru–teach their parents to read or write.” Negroponte said that is the point of his program. “I don’t have a better story.”

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