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Answer» A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today. Example: Devices like the Raspberry Pi could be used to educate deaf people in any part of the world. Just a 2GB SD chip can hold 4 hours of sing-language video. I hear you man!! I am so glad some one has finally created something to educate all the deaf people in the world. Just think how all those smug people that have been using good ole ink and paper text books as a MEANS of educations for years must now feel since the deaf have a means to learn like they do. mroilfield, You are welcome. I have a niece that is near total deaf. She can read lips a little, but is much more comfortable with people who use ASL (American Sign Language.) In fact there has been an effort to use more portable DVD players with small screens to help communicate with the deaf. A well-made ASL presentation is much better that TV with captions. Many ASL deaf struggle with standard English. ASL is not English. And Mexican SL is not Spanish. A DVD can do about 2 hours. But the use of SD RAM chips opens up the possibility of getting daily downloads that could be saved and used over again and shared with no wear. Or be erased. Small computer res like the Raspberry PI open the door for start-up companies to provide programmable devices for disadvantaged people who do not present a large market to the big companies. As for me, my handicap is my poor reading vision. I hear great and do some of my stuff with voice recognition. I read they are going to have voice recognition soon in very small computers. Some errors in grammar are because I can not see the mistakes. I can no LONGER read phonetically. Hopefully the Raspberry Pi will bring better communication to everyone anywhere in the world. There is a lot of bandwidth available on the satellites. They could have ASL broadcasts daily and it would have little impact on the commercial use. A device like the Raspberry could be fitted with a download device that will catch satellite data. OK apparently I didn't put as much into the SARCASM as i thought I did. As long as MANKIND has been able to write in some form or another we have had the technology to teach the everybody world. Only exception is the blind because they can't read normal writing but then again there was a method developed to teach them. I get tired of hearing how these type devices are going to help teach the world when most people that make those claims have never been outside their own countries to see what the rest of the world is like. Let's ignore the teach the deaf part of this and just say teach people in general in any part of the world. As this is an electrical device how do you plan it get utilized in place with little to no electricity or this just for people that are privileged enough to have this luxury? what happens when these break? Can they send them back for repair, are they expected to know how to fix it themselves, or are they cheap enough that they end up as another disposable electronic device filling some hole some where in a third world country like most discarded electronics? Don't get me wrong I do see some good things these can be used for but let's not continue to push electronics as the answer to the worlds education problem because until you sort out the various issues with using devices like this all over the world nothing beats good ole ink and paper |
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