I happened to see this tonight in the course of watching the most predictably clichéd “sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the sixties” documentary ever broadcast on TV. I suppose it’s alarming I did that in a room by myself on a Saturday night. Please don’t worry.
But again, Gene Simmons in a One Laptop Per Child commercial. And it was uploaded two years ago. I take some pride in following a solid network of savvy and culturally sophisticated online educators. I’m certain that if any of them had shared this, I would have noticed. And I would think that if any person’s collective network should be expected to detect The Demon’s alliance with OLPC, it would have been mine.
The most substantial coverage I can find is from KISSopolis. I don’t want to go there for my open educational technology news.
I need to rethink how I am approaching all this. I’m obviously doing it wrong.
The video is for an OLPC Canada project intended to “[enhance] education for Aboriginal youth with technological tools designed for creative, innovative, self-empowered learning.” This is the first I’ve seen of the project, I certainly endorse those objectives. I hope the project is immensely beneficial to Aboriginal youth.
But… GENE SIMMONS. Sheesh…
The project is funded by the Belinda Stronach Foundation. Stronach had an eventful career in politics, so when I learned of her involvement I immediately wondered if she had something to do with Simmons’s appearance. Apparently, they had indeed “teamed up” years ago in a Canadian music industry start-up.
next you’ll be telling me you haven’t seen the Neil Young BCCampus advert (actually that’s not that far fetched)
Ain’t singing for Andrew
Ain’t signing for Thrun
Won’t sing for VC funding
Makes me feel like a dud
This MOOC…
This MOOC…
This MOOC…
This MOOC’s for you!
I am happier when I find things my network has not signaled my way. It reinforces my notion that the information space feels infinite. If everything has been discovered, it leaves no frontier of weirdness.
I WANT A LAPTOP!!!
The OLPC I bought for Gabriel in 2008 has been pretty much a dedicated Comix reader for the last 6 years … as much as I tried to like the Sugar UI my kids really didn’t care for it. Gabriel and Lydia used the OLPC way more once I put Ubuntu on it.