{"id":12715,"date":"2012-11-08T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12715"},"modified":"2012-11-08T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:00:41","slug":"this-just-in-kids-are-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12715","title":{"rendered":"This Just In:  Kids Are Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2012\/10\/ethiopian-kids.php\">Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on\/off switch. He&#8217;d never seen an on\/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is such a great story.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction &#8220;We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}