Listen to Adam Phillips’ report for VOA news about Nicholas Negroponte, who combines imagination, engineering and idealism to bring laptops to the world’s children.

PUTTING COMPUTERS IN HANDS OF EVERY CHILD

5.1. What do these dates stand for? Give the context and explain as fully as possible:

The 1940s, 1961, 1967, 1985, 2000.

Listen to the report again. For questions 1-10, complete the sentences.

When Nicholas Negroponte enrolled at the MIT to study architecture, the field used extremely (1) ………. computer graphics to do its modeling.

Although the birth of the personal computer was still a decade away, Negroponte saw a wider (2) ………. for the new machines.

Today, he credits his education in architectural design for preparing him to become an (3) ………. in the development of human-computer interface systems.

Negroponte was passionate about the many ways that research into human/computer interface lay at the (4) of art and mathematics.

Years later, as Wiesner neared retirement, he (5) ………. his desire for a lab devoted to the research and development of the human/computer interface.

The first project looked at the future of computer graphics as something more consumer oriented and (6) ………. by a much bigger market.

Negroponte wanted the Media Lab to be a place you could come, and do research and (7) ………. applications in the same place.

“One Laptop Per Child” is now trying to get, a (8) ………., affordable Internet-connected laptop computer into the hands of every child in the world, especially in developing nations.

Worldwide, schools report that their ‘connected’ children have fewer discipline problems, their parents become more involved in the children’s education and kids often (9) ………. run to school.

Negroponte adds that that kind of impact is extraordinarily (10) ………. to him.

In part 2 of the report you will find out what headway “One Laptop Per Child” has made in some of the most remote places on the Earth. Listen and decide whether the statements below are true (T), false (F) or not given (NG).

SAVING THE WORLD, ONE LAPTOP AT A TIME

One Laptop Per Child’s office is a playroom for geeky adults decorated with multicolor engineering and distribution charts.

Nicholas Negroponte’s goal is to provide laptops to all the world’s children, especially the half-billion or more who live in extreme poverty.

They invented laptops that could be used by the children day and night.

Today, the device is owned by 1.2 million children in 19 countries who speak 31 languages.

In October 2007, Uruguay placed an order for 100,000 laptops, making Uruguay the first country to purchase a full order of laptops.

6. Steven Dukker founded Computing, a company that makes software and hardware that allow a $300 desktop computer to run programs and applications for dozens of students at the same time.

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