OLPC gets SimCity
Ars Technica:
"Electronic Arts announced yesterday plans to donate the original version of the SimCity computer game to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries on OLPC's XO laptop."
And this gem from the person pushing this particular approach:
""The goal is to enable the open-source community to renovate SimCity and take it in new educational directions, by applying Seymour Papert's ideas about constructionist education, Alan Kay's ideas about interactive user interfaces and object-oriented programming, Ben Shneiderman's ideas about direct manipulation and info visualization, and many exciting ideas about multiplayer games, blogging, storytelling, game mods, player created content, and lessons learned from World of WarCraft, The Sims, Spore, etc,""
Fantastic.
Reminds me, the 'buy two, get one' OLPC purchasing schme opens up tonight (UK time)
