Comments on: Mobiles can’t replace laptops! https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/mobiles-cant-replace-laptops/2009/01/19 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:14:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Richard Karpinski https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/mobiles-cant-replace-laptops/2009/01/19/comment-page-1#comment-366490 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:14:54 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2322#comment-366490 We know that a great way to really learn a subject well is to teach it. With tools like these, and some guidance, kids can develop courseware for other kids, not necessarily younger ones. This can build a relevant and ever growing body of computer mediated rich learning environments. You saw how fast Wikipedia grew into an awesome resource. When entire student bodies are learning this way, the results cannot help but be astonishingly delightful for many learners and particularly teacher/learners. The best results can be emulated widely across locations, languages, and even cultures in many cases.

The students then proceed to become the resources needed to teach all the students. And the laptops and mesh networks do the boring and repetitive parts, so nobody needs to do the nasty work. How quickly can ten thousand students build the knowledge base for how to dig ar clean a well. Could they build and refine age appropriate stories with the text both written (and animated) and spoken, in their local language?

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