October 30, 2008 Meeting

During our October 30, 2008 meeting, we listened to Paul Kim from Stanford University. Paul doesn’t think that helping undeveloped countries in education can be done by affording them with expensive computers, but a little handheld device would be the effective solution. This gadget would allow kids from undeveloped countries to learn materials that are relevant to their education, and in turn, they would be able to give back to their own country someday as they gain the knowledge necessary to compete in this technological age.

Near the end of his presentation, my classmate asked Paul Kim whether the device is self-sufficient and whether it is appropriate for U.S. students. Paul said that although the device is self-sufficient, the content developed for the handheld device is geared toward students from undeveloped countries rather than students in the U.S. We would need to develope separate contents for U.S. students since developed countries have different educational problems.

Our group (me, Yana, Miles) did a presentation on the chapter called “Design” of Daniel Pink’s book.