Tonight, I would like to say a couple of things which should be useful for all Ethiopian students onward.

To reduce the lesson subjects for all students would be better to have a great future life, as a person with dignity. Unless, they abandon the school and go back to country side and die by famine.

For example, At U.K all the student have 4 subjects according to his wishes and desire to study the career that he would think it is better for him.
As an example, if one boy /girl have ten subjects, he does not have enough time to study them at the same time; even if he/ she could they basically forget soon that subject. Because they, imagine that its obligation for the moment but not for long time.

I beg by the name of all my poor country in this subject, or by 82% of an alphabet to think about this to find the solution soon.

International help will end maybe one day, but till then please, please let’s take the advantage of this aid to develop this country.

Thank you.

Sadly, OLPC decision-makers (including Mr. Keller) do not see empowering the teachers or providing relevant learning materials as a priority. Teachers are mostly told what to do, and the Internet is supposed to be enough as to content.
There are limited examples of volunteers and teachers doing it, outside of OLPC, in Uruguay and other places – this gives us some hope.
Right now, however, Mr. Keller is 100% right in implying that using the XO computers is disconnected with what children do in school, “…far more dynamic and interactive than anything that he does at school…”, and it is highly doubtful that children used to incoherent and unstructured access to the Internet will in any way become more interested in Secondary education. More so, as international studies demonstrate, the distraction of home use of computers actually makes for worse grades, as children spend even less time doing homework.

Yes, ICT4E can be done right, and Mr. Hollow and ICT4D have some valuable ideas. Before dismissing OLPC, however, it would be fair to ask Mr. Keller to show us objective positive learning results from any deployment directed by OLPC, anywhere in the world.
All of those of us connected with the initiative for the last couple years would love to hear about those.