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One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Walter Bender's question 22 : What “shoulders of giants” should we stand on? What is it that children should learn? Are there any universals? How do children decide whom and what to believe? Alan Kay I've been providing what I think is a good answer to these questions for some time now but often the response is muted and contradictory. It's not my original answer, it originates from...
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Bill Kerr (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
walter bender's question 22 : (22) What “shoulders of giants” should we stand on? What is it that children should learn? Are there any universals? How do children decide whom and what to believe? I've been providing what I think is a good answer to these questions for some time now (since December 2006: what should schools teach? ) but often the response is muted and contradictory. It's...
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Bill Kerr (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... . I think the stage we are at is getting the questions right as well as the answers - that walter's act of modelling such a process would bear fruit if others took up the same challenge that he has taken up, to be a grass roots intellectual spanning disciplines as well as having expertise in particular domains. In many ways this is going against the dominant trend of intellectual discourse...
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Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... have kept its Chief Technology Officer. With a little capitalism, everybody wins. Same thing with Walter Bender, the chief software guy, who left over OLPC’s decision to put Windows on the laptops (a frequent request from customers). Now obviously, in startups it happens that senior people quit over differences in strategy, and even start competitors (as Mr Bender did). But...
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One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
This is the third installment of Walter Bender's “Confessions of a Fundamentalist”: part 1 , part 2 . Last week Walter posted the third and final part of his thoughts under the title " A page from the Hilbert playbook ". He graciously allowed us to re-publish it here: In 1900, the German mathematician David Hilbert posed 23 problems in mathematics that were very influential to...
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Gearlog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
... a part of OLPC, Intel contributed $100 million, but at the time of their departure, OLPC president Walter Bender said that "we never really got much going with Intel to have an impact." Intel later released its second-generation Classmate PC in April 2008. Intel and its Classmate PC has had a rocky history with OLPC. Intel's chairman, Craig Barrett, publicly disparaged Negroponte's...
