They then used Tux Paint’s built-in image “stamps” to generate examples in the three categories. The cartoonish sounds of Tux Paint’s stamps emanated out of the XO laptops’ tinny speakers, ricocheting off the painted cinderblock walls of the room. Students without laptops wrote out examples and drew pictures in their notebooks instead. After about ten minutes of working, the teacher announced that the rest would be homework for tomorrow and asked children to put their laptops away and take out their notebooks to copy a poem in Guaraní from the board in the half hour or so before school ended.
This is the perfect example to show how terrible tech can be in the hands and context of a community that doesn’t have the resources to sustain its use. What do I mean? It’s clear in this situation, the best use of the teacher’s time is to use a different kind of technology, namely, paper and a printer. Instead of having students copy a poem from the black board for 30 minutes, students and their teacher could have benefited from a printed material.
