Comments on: Wisdom from India (and from children in Ethiopia) http://georgebrock.net/wisdom-from-india-and-from-children-in-ethiopia/ 21st Century Media and Journalism Sun, 05 May 2013 00:13:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Emma Mahony http://georgebrock.net/wisdom-from-india-and-from-children-in-ethiopia/comment-page-1/#comment-6019 Emma Mahony Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:10:37 +0000 http://georgebrock.net/?p=2675#comment-6019 mmm. I think you have to remember that Ipads are still a tool developed by a corporation over which any government has little control, so the idea that Apple should somehow be given licence to “educate” poor Ethiopian children is wrong. Remember that these are grown up devices, and when Ipod Touches were introduced into my child’s state school in Year 6 as part of a Technofying movement, the children soon learned how to get round the restrictions by hacking passwords, and were recording rude things about each other and playing them back.

With technology must go responsibility on how to use it, and I don’t trust big corporations such as Apple driven by profit to have access to any brand-new consumers (children) without the responsibility that goes with it.

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