What happens when you give children in remote villages Ethiopian tablets?
To find a solution to this solution, the organization One Laptop Per Child is a new strategy in two remote villages in Ethiopia. They provided the locals tablets preinstalled applications and followed their use.
The campaign was to see if these children are illiterate and have not been exposed to any written materials alone can learn to read by the pursuit of educational games on the tablet. Nicholas Negroponte, founder claims that the first results of the research are encouraging. The study used Motorola Xoom tablet are used in conjunction with a solar charging system. Once scientists have taught the locals to use tablets, they continued to visit them every week for them to change memory cards. In this way, scientists can study how the devices are used. After several months, the children in both villages continue to use tablets. They have been seen as recited "alphabet song", recorded in one of the programs, or even trying to write. One of the boys involved in the study, which was exposed to educational games with animals, opened a graphics editing program and typed the word "lion". The experiment is performed in two isolated villages located 80 kilometers from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. In every village there are about 20 children of school age who have never seen printed materials, signs and printed packaging. One of the villages is called Wonchi and is located on the rim of a volcanic crater and the other is called Wolonchete. "Earlier this year, our volunteers have gone into villages boxes containing tablets. Although the boxes did not contain instructions, in two minutes one of the children not only opened the box, but had found and the start of its tablet. In just five days each child used 47 times a day and within two months all singing ABC (alphabet song) in the village. Moreover, in five months distinctly Android app secrets. A room off the idiot in the organization and they have realized that and took advantage, and fully customizing the desktop. Now I installed a software to prevent them from doing so. This event is a clear indication of creativity, a critical breakthrough related to learning. If you can not learn to read, they can read to learn, "said Negroponte.
