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BTW, I think the OLPC would be ideal for emergency communications:
* self-powered
* self-networking because of mesh
* you could download essential disaster response information in advance, in case there was no connectivity at all.
I know, from an exchange of emails with Negroponte, that they don't want to take their focus off the educational mission, but I'd like to think that global disaster recovery would be equally important, and perhaps revenue from sales of the disaster versions could help fund the educational program.
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This is one of the great moments in this, western centred, modern world. Education being taken back to the Academy by developing world.

Investigating, connecting and sharing

I too echo this worry:

"Ethan worries about students wanting to use them to the max while the teachers want to confine the usage to class-focused activities"

Much of Negroponte's and Papert's thoughts around the learning environment do not have much use or room for traditional teachers. Love them or hate them, they are a reality and respected leaders in the developing world.

Disrespecting or disregarding their role is done at great peril.

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Great idea to get children involved in technology early because computers are not going anywhere!

"One Laptop per Child" is yet one more ridiculous project by do-gooders foisted on the third world. Thank God these people have someplace to work off their excess energy, otherwise they might do some real damage.

To begin, nothing on this computer is compatible with the vast majority of other computers in the world. Not much about windows and file folders might be "intuitive", but yet another incompatible user interface is not helping anyone.

Second, a fast internet connection is far more important than exactly what computer hardware is used for access. I would rather have one good broadband internet connection shared per classroom, than a whole classroom of "One Laptop per Child".

But software and software compatibility is really hard, and the hardware types just don't have any interest or appeciation of just how important this is.

Negroponte might hate Word and Excel and other aspects of his culture, but when these kids try to get work they will be asked if they know Word and Excel and Windows, not a stick figure interface.

a fast internet connection is far more important than exactly what computer hardware is used for access.

it may not be the best laptop out there, but at least some of these countries will get their younger students involved with tech

The One Laptop Per Child is a terrific program. Distributing computers in this day and age is as important as distributing books, paper, pens, pencils or small chalk boards have been since school was invented.

Anyone who thinks an internet connection is necessary has no clue what learning is about. By distributing the tools necessary to learn Modern reading, writing and arithmetic we are making the world a better place.

Basic computer literacy, typing skills and having an enormous library at the tip of your fingers is much more important.

Dump these arrogant pro-micros**t software, super computer elitists in the middle of a third world nation for a year and let them come back and tell me how important it is to have access to badly written memory/processor hog software.

Basic computer literacy, typing skills and having an enormous library at the tip of our fingers is much more important.So, in this use we give more work in this computer.