PS2 development is generally too expensive for the cost model of education
games, sadly.


On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:39 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

> > A friend is developing such
> > web/tablet based lessons for similar kids in India (India has as big a
> > problem of poor ed. as the whole of Africa).
>
> The BBC reports exceptional success by some NGOs introducing tablets
> in rural (central) Africa amongst children.  But the price is wrong.
> Scrappy, perfectly adequate, if antiquated, computer equipment
> discarded in the West and even locally, by urban residents and
> organisations, on the other hand, is much more affordable.
> Electricity is an issue, but the cost of PV panels and inverters is
> dropping.
>
> Please continue with suggestions, I have a few weeks to get started
> and there may well be many ideas I have not considered (MIT Scratch is
> one such idea Charles already mentioned) and may make all the
> difference.  Maybe in private mail?
>
> Also, I have never seen any educational games for the PS2 (I bought
> one a while back as an experiment).  I would have thought it would be
> something worthwhile, maybe I'm too far from the mainstream to have
> come across such games?
>
> ++L
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