It's Even Hard For People

Rote Learning Is A Killer For Most Of Us And For Some People, It Really Excludes Them.

Giving The Kids A Programming Environment Of Any Sort, Whether It's A Tool Like Squeak Or Scratch Or Logo To Write Programs In A Childish Way - And I Mean That In The Most Generous Sense Of The Word, That Is, Playing With And Building Things - Is One Of The Best Ways To Learn.

Google Has A Very Powerful And New Advertising Model That, For Them, Prints Money.

It's Hard To Propose A $100 Laptop For A World Community Of Kids And Then Not Say In The Same Breath That You're Going To Depend On The Community To Make Software For It.

Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.