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Letting us all know how these kids explore the XO Power!!

--Amitg 01:43, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Remote update – after Oct. 14

Source: Amit

All the children have been going to school regularly, even Kamala, Vinod, Sooraj and Garima (who still skips class-days once in a while). These four children have integrated to their classmates and enjoy school. Vinod and Sooraj are doing as well as many others in class with the XOs.
The teacher “ looks pretty committed bringing them to school now. The other day we had [the teacher] himself getting them….”
The teacher has already started maintaining his school records on the XO. He is always figuring out the best possible means of making use of the XO during his teaching.
One day, the teacher said that Garima had voluntarily asked him for books for her.
All the children are getting better and better at the laptop, to the point that one day they had visitors from Mumbai and:

“well, they were enthralled to see them [...] everyone did something: from writing names to taking their pictures [...] also showed them activities like memorize , etoys, tamtam ... they were all having fun, and the two... were on fire ... he didn’t even allow them to touch his keypad... wanted to do it all by himself ...and for the first time, I heard [him saying] something to them .. I don’t know what he said .. but was pretty interested in showing them stuff he had done and was sort of explaining it to them.”

Comment: Rajiv doesn't speak English and the visitors didn't speak Marathi, but that didn’t keep them from speaking to each other, and communicating: at this point, language doesn't matter.