We heard yesterday morning that Macedonia is rolling out 53,000 Classmates to improve education throughout the country. At about the same time, I took a class about literacy in schools and ways to enhance both reading and writing skills in all grades and all content areas. One of the real takeaways from the class was the absolute need for students to read and write every day.
Let’s pretend for a minute that every kid from the 5th grade onwards could have a laptop (it doesn’t matter if it’s a Classmate, an OLPC XO, or a MacBook; just assume they always have a laptop at their disposal). |
