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I think I spotted some typos:
110 msgid "foundation" 111 msgstr "participate" 112 113 msgid "foundationlink" 114 msgstr "link to participate" # shouldn't they read 'foundation' instead of 'participate' the msgstr?
- well, we are using participate even though we really mean foundation...
... 271 msgstr "Most of the nearly two—billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade." # mdash?
- good catch
272 273 msgid "missionp2" 274 msgstr "The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never guessing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so." # commonweal?
- commonweal means "The public good or welfare."
... 288 msgid "missionp5" 289 msgstr "XO embodies the theories of constructionism first developed by MIT Media Lab Professor Seymour Papert in the 1960s, and later elaborated upon by Alan Kay, complemented by the principles articulated by Nicholas Negroponte in his book, <i>Being Digital<\i>." # </i>?
- oops
... 292 msgstr "Extensively field-tested and validated among some of the poorest and most remote populations on earth, constructionism emphasizes what Papert calls "learning learning" as the fundamental educational experience. A computer uniquely fosters learning learning by allowing children to "think about thinking", in ways that are otherwise impossible. Using the XO as both their window on the world, as well as a highly programmable tool for exploring it, children in emerging nations will be opened to both illimitable knowledge and to their own creative and problem"solving potential." # " not closed/opened?
- another oops.
--Walter 19:48, 12 March 2007 (EDT)