There was a story years ago about some scientists who dropped a box of tablets into a village somewhere that had no previous contact with modern tech. They went back some time later, and the kids had figured out, not only how to use them, but had networked them too. I wonder what ever happened with that, or if it was even true? I suppose I should google it.
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...
Not sure what the US has to do with this. But I guess if you wanted to compare the literacy rates, Ethiopia is at 51.8 adult literacy rate and the US at 86%.
Not sure what we get out of that comparison though.
Yeah, the whole framing is just so white-saviour/noble savage esque..
E: and before I get a "well how are they supposed to frame it??!1" - "kids given tablets for the first time easily learn not only how to use them, but personalise them too". Simple.
whoever dropped off those tablets and wrote this article should probably try it again on North Sentinel Island. I think that's the effect they were hoping for.
Every morning at 4am, the village children wake up. With swatters in hand, they race into the memory banks, ready to debug the relays before the morning batch job is run.
I tried a pair but didn't feel like they could stay tight enough, kind of felt like they were floppy but they didn't have a half size smaller. Is that what you use?
No, I just want some for casual wear. I have long lace steel toe boots for when I'm going to be hunting a long time and muck style boots for shorter wear times.
Don't know about them personally but given the industry would be suspicious of the quality. It's likely they're one of the few or only suppliers people can buy things from while incarcerated.
