By Hama Tuma
This article is provoked by a recent article in the German Der Spiegel under the title of “Ethiopian Kids using Tablets to Teach Themselves”. This is how the magazine article told the story:
“A US aid organization has handed
children in the remote Ethiopian village of Wenchi tablet computers in
an experiment aimed at enabling them to teach themselves. They are now
speaking their first words of English — without ever having encountered a
teacher”.
The Charity business is funny in a cruel
way. Giving a handful of Ethiopian rural kids Tablets is as bad and
ridiculous as the used soaps sent to Uganda, the spiced ham sent to
Muslim Asian Tsunami survivors, dog food to Kenya, and the knickers for
Africa and bras for Haiti programs. Just give Tablets to Ethiopian kids
and they will have no need for teachers and to hell with the already
reduced budget for education. It is a novel idea and the Tablet/computer
idea for Ethiopian kids, which will make teachers irrelevant, belongs
to the new America Messiah called Matt Keller who works for the “One
Laptop Per Child” NGO and states that this way the kids can just leap
into the information age. The harshly criticized Chinese Great Leap
Foreword was more realistic and to the point. To read more please click here
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