World Ahead: Intel’s new development move

Intel to design a cheap laptop and put $1 billion into teacher training worldwide. Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access – New York Times
At some point sometime, Negroponte, of the $100 laptop project, said that he didn’t feel that teacher training was the right way to go in a development sense, better to target the children. I agree with him up to a certain point. I wouldn’t rule out the teacher training route because I feel that to maximize the benefits of ICTs as a learning technology for a learning society they need to be integrated into the classroom and therefore teachers will be an issue sooner or later. I think that as long as people are aware of the difficulties and time factors involved in targeting the teachers they should be able to design programmes that work.
Intel’s site about the World Ahead programme is here: Intel – World Ahead.