From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <0EC819B8-4267-43DA-81C9-2E530CDFB153@bitblocks.com> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:51:45 -0800 Message-ID: From: Paul Lalonde To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b622820d9356804cf191e8b Subject: Re: [9fans] c++ Topicbox-Message-UUID: e3c08bcc-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b622820d9356804cf191e8b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 PS2 development is generally too expensive for the cost model of education games, sadly. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:39 AM, 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 > > > --047d7b622820d9356804cf191e8b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 developin= g 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<= br> in rural (central) Africa amongst children. =A0But 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. =A0Maybe in private mail?

Also, I have never seen any educational games for the PS2 (I bought
one a while back as an experiment). =A0I 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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