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    "pk": 2709,
    "title": "Green Machines and Constructionism: The Rhetoric and Reality of One Laptop Per Child in Sub-Saharan Africa",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This article is an analysis and literature review of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program within the education sector, particularly the deployment of X-O laptops in the continent of Africa. While the project was created to address a specific issue - the digital divide - and undoubtedly had a significant impact in the field of technology, it has specific limitations: it reproduces a Western ideology of individualistic technology use and relies on a strict framework which fails to take local needs into consideration. Moreover, research on technology use in education, beyond X-O laptops, has focused mainly on developed countries. The article concludes that technology is not the panacea for education as envisioned by OLPC; moreover, its rigid mission goals and lack of independent studies ultimately hinder its aim of reducing the digital divide.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "education technology"
        },
        {
            "word": "developing countries"
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        {
            "word": "sub-Saharan Africa"
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    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8g01s13r",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Richard",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bamattre",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "None currently; alumni of UCLA GSEIS, Social Science and Comparative Education",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2013-12-05T03:51:06+08:00",
    "date_accepted": "2013-12-05T03:51:06+08:00",
    "date_published": "2014-06-18T15:00:00+08:00",
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}