Giving a child a stethoscope might not compel him to become a
physician later in life... However, It's very likely that the child
will end up in STeM; which is exactly what we want. I am not
advocating that we give students expensive gadgets. I am of the
opinion that we give them knowledge or a portal to knowledge. A child
with an agriculture kindle library might make quite an impact to his
community. Empowered children have zest; they will experiment (in the
farm, in the village, in science fairs) and that's what we want.
Right?

> 'Are we there yet?'
Nope

> Will we get there?
Depends on a lot of factors... Government policy, community, culture,
an enabling economy....

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Phares Kariuki <phares.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Estonia policy is yet to produce results - the boom right now in
> technology is due to the education system in the 90's (when the current
> working class was getting trained).
>
> Additionally, Estonia are teaching their kids to code, not buying them
> laptops - it's a curriculum intervention not a medium of instruction
> intervention.
>
> Again, giving a stethoscope to a 7 year old will not make him a great
> doctor.
>
> On Monday, May 6, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Watson Kambo wrote:
>
> I think we are all looking at it the wrong way, the assumption that only IT
> students should get a laptop and Engineer, Doctors et al do not need them is
> not well founded. Am a trained engineer so is a guy who trained before me
> but never got a chance to interact with  Computers at that critical age in
> High school and campus. I was lucky enough to be and most of the things that
> I know today are probably from that time. He is still in the dark in many
> things. If I was exposed to computers early say even when I was younger in
> Primary and the like I would have gained the same or even more and at an
> even early age. I view the laptops as an 'eye' opener they are fascinating,
> they are interesting, believe you me the kids will even learn faster than
> they would have without them.
>
> It does not mean that all these Kids will end up in IT, the doctors will
> still be doctors so will be the lawyers ... and the IT geeks will start
> coding at an early age, :-) , I believe its going to change everything if
> well implemented, you should all have a look at what the same (Almost the
> same) policy has changed Estonia ...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Watson Kambo
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