Elisa Fernanda Castillo Cruz, age 6, is a first grader at the Escuela Enmanuel Mongalo in Diriamba, Nicaragua--and she loves her XO computer, better known as the One Laptop Per Child laptop. "I bring it home and I teach my mama and my papa and my little brothers," she says in Spanish. "I show them all the activities they don't know--painting, writing, reading, games."
This kind of engagement was exactly the goal when Nicholas Negroponte, then the director of MIT's famous Media Lab, launched the One Laptop Per Child not-for-profit back in 2005. |
