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'The Miracle..' - Learning

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Sugar Labs (Learning)

<blockquote>'..the tablet project is truly changing Ethiopia, he says, because no one is receiving handouts. "The Wenchi children work hard for six hours a day," says Mike, "merely because they like to and are proud of the fact that they can do something. We have nothing against schools, but schools just aren't being built here in the highlands."

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And then it seems as if everything made sense, after all. Abebech walks into the hut, and as the Teletubbie voices sing the ABC song on her computer, the men gather around the child. She explains the foreign letters to them and shows them how they're written. The men marvel at this 10-year-old child, a girl, at that, and they listen to her. It's a scene that would have been unthinkable before the whites came to Wenchi with their strange devices.'

- Ethiopian Kids Using Tablets to Teach Themselves, December 28, 2012</blockquote>


edX - The Future of Online Education

<blockquote>'The classes are free but unfortunately you do not get credit hours for them. Eventually you will.

The cost of education will come down for the simple reason it has to. The price of college education is not only ridiculous, but unsustainable.'

- '..the Future; Virtual Classrooms to Reach 1 Billion People', December 30, 2012</blockquote>


Context Raven (Nell’s Personal Tutor) - Story (possibility) - ‘Open Source Ecology’ - Little Raven

<blockquote>Kinder children..

Learning - Spontaneous, Complexity, Electricity - The Unique Individual

(Individual Learning) - 'In nearly all developing countries the levels of learning achievement are shockingly low..'

(Open Source Learning) - Ubuntu & Android '..neatly .. mobile and desktop computing.'

Affectivity, Action, Electricity - '..in order to preserve society itself..'

(Love) '..scientific and spiritual in equal measure .. truth.'

In The Electric Universe a Future of Peace and Love</blockquote>