Did the author read the links to One Laptop per Child? Negroponte repeatedly refers to it as an education project, not a computer project, as he is specifically a disciple of the constructionist school of learning at MIT. Others can explain constructionist theory better, but the upshot of the theory is that the schools should encourage learning as an active enterprise, not a passive one, and part of the goal of the OLPC - again, the main goal - is to have more kids doing in school, and fewer kids listening. This is why the project began dealing directly with Ministries of Education (for better or worse). A core part of the project involves teacher training for use of the laptop in their daily lessons.

There are many legitimate criticisms of OLPC, many of them expressed in previous Slate articles. But the idea that the program doesn't focus sufficiently on "approaches that provide structured, supervised access" is ludicrous. That is the stated *goal* of the program and its distributions include specific interventions to do so.