Why does our own country (usa) not buy these? At $150 they are only a little more than a years worth of textbooks, and they would actually help move this country into the 21st century.
It is insane that Libya is taking more aggressive steps towards computer literacy than we are. Think of the benefits for teachers, Automatically generated and graded math tests, teaching programming (logic, math, interactivity) in second grade, one computer instead of 15 books to haul around, ability to tailor curriculums to different modalities of learning, ability to update textbooks instantly, open source (cheap) textbooks...
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Why does our own country (usa) not buy these? At $150 they are only a little more than a years worth of textbooks, and they would actually help move this country into the 21st century.
It is insane that Libya is taking more aggressive steps towards computer literacy than we are. Think of the benefits for teachers, Automatically generated and graded math tests, teaching programming (logic, math, interactivity) in second grade, one computer instead of 15 books to haul around, ability to tailor curriculums to different modalities of learning, ability to update textbooks instantly, open source (cheap) textbooks...