How children in developing countries use laptops are different from children in developed countries

byIntel Free Press

Whatever country you are born in and what kind of family you are born, all the children have the right to learn. It is an organization that gives notebook PCs to children in poor countries for the purpose of mastering digital technology and gives learning opportunitiesOne Laptop Per Child project"Discovered that the use of notebook PCs used privately by children in developing countries has characteristics not found in developed countries.

How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar
https://theconversation.com/how-kids-in-a-low-income-country-use-laptops-lessons-from-madagascar-93305

One Laptop Per Child project is an educational project launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and created a notebook PC with free educational software for 6 to 12 years of age, developing in more than 30 countries We give children of the country learning opportunities. The purpose of the project is that all children, teachers, and community as a whole are involved in computers, and everyone is feeling interest and responsibility for computers. Children who are given notebook PCs can use computers given to themselves to do whatever they like to take home, except learning at school.

Madagascar, an African island country, 75% of the population (about 25 million people), statistics do not have any income spent on entertainment and luxury goods at all "Poverty line"It is said that education and living standards are poor, because you can earn less than income below. In cooperation with French organizations, One Laptop Per Child project provided laptop PCs to 160 children aged 5 to 15 who attend elementary school in Nosy Komba located in northeastern Madagascar. Of course he not only handed over the notebook PC but also offered a wide range of support on technology, management, finance and education at the same time.

For the notebook PC that we paid, there is a log showing what kind of application the children used, and the One Laptop Per Child project analyzed the log over the 12 months since giving the children notebook PCs. At the same time, when we conducted an interview survey at home, we found that children at Nosy Komba Island are using school and home and using laptop PCs in a totally different way.

byUS Army Africa

Children use laptop computers at school mainly accessing learning applications, educational games, e-books and electronic calculators, online maps and so on that replace textbooks. Meanwhile, returning to the house did not differ from children in developed countries, he searched music online, listened to the game, played games and did homework. Children of low age hardly used applications such as e-books, but when they were in the 4th or 5th grade, the frequency of using e-books etc. was improved.

As for apps accessed using notebook PCs, children in developing countries where there was hardly any difference between children in developed countries, but there seems to be a big difference in the method used by notebook PC itself . On Nosy Komba Island, my family gathered at a child's laptop computer, played games, watched pictures and listened to music. The notebook PC was a useful tool to strengthen existing social relations such as brothers, parents and friends.

As children in developing countries usually do not have much time to buy laptop PCs, they can not get the opportunity to come into contact with computers quite easily, so even if they become adults it is hard for them to become a PC engineer or other job there is. Giving learning opportunities to many children through support such as One Laptop Per Child project is regarded as an urgent matter to make the world better.