Last month in Technology Review there was an article on the HDL,
or hundred dollar laptop. This is a project by Nicholas
Negroponte from the MIT Media lab to create a low price laptop
for children in developing countries. It is a very neat idea. In
this month's edition included a couple of letters to the editor
that provide some good insight into some of the limitations of
the project. While an HDL would be a boon to our world, simply
making the Internet available to the masses is a far cry form
actually educating them. I worked with my children's local
school district through two technology tax levies to help ensure
that money wasn't thrown at a problem without a plan to use it
intelligently. Getting information to the children is only part
of the solution. Providing guidance and structure to learning is
every bit as important, if not more important. Providing
teachers with education on how to use the technology for
teaching was and is as important as providing the computers and
Internet access. Also, will p