“We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes!
Jfc, the racism oozing from that statement… 🤢
What happens if you drop off a thousand Motorola Xoom tablet PCs in a village with kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll have taught themselves to customize the software, reactivate disabled features and, perhaps, start down the path of learning to read.
Even this first paragraph by the author. These kids clearly already know how to fucking read, there’s written words in the background of the photos, including stuff that looks written by a child.
The first bolded part, that’s just lol. But for the second, the youth literacy rate there is 55%. It’s low enough that it might not be that horrible of an assumption. But combined with the first part, yeah…
I think it was about the kids never having seen computers, so the tablets would be meaningless to them.
And boxes are fun
