It is amazing what a hundred dollars can buy! One Laptop per Child organization has created a $100 laptop that is geared to be used by students in developing countries. These countries lag behind in education, and with the use of these computers can hopefully make up some ground. These computers can help get students excited about learning. More importantly, the computers can help parents help their students with their work. For example, if a student's parents cannot read, they may struggle in helping their child. However, the teacher could record the instructions to the computer and then the parent could listen to the assignment.
Some countries that participate in One Laptop per Child include Peru, Rwanda, Uruguay, and Libya.
Hopefully, people in the United States will see the importance of every child having a computer and makes changes to make it happen here. Education would change so much if each student had their own computer.
More information can be found at:
http://www.laptop.org/
http://www.olpc.com/
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