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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

What happens if you drop off a thousand Motorola Xoom tablet PCs in a village with kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll have taught themselves to customize the software, reactivate disabled features and, perhaps, start down the path of learning to read.

Even this first paragraph by the author. These kids clearly already know how to fucking read, there’s written words in the background of the photos, including stuff that looks written by a child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the whole framing is just so white-saviour/noble savage esque..

E: and before I get a "well how are they supposed to frame it??!1" - "kids given tablets for the first time easily learn not only how to use them, but personalise them too". Simple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The first bolded part, that's just lol. But for the second, the youth literacy rate there is 55%. It's low enough that it might not be that horrible of an assumption. But combined with the first part, yeah...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That line reads like some Boomer who has no idea how computers work. Doing what they did to those tablets required the prior ability to read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not sure what the US has to do with this. But I guess if you wanted to compare the literacy rates, Ethiopia is at 51.8 adult literacy rate and the US at 86%.

Not sure what we get out of that comparison though.