2013/7/11 Balázs Viczián balazs.viczian@wikimedia.hu:
Would be interesting to see a similar project somewhere in rural Europe or the US,
Interesting idea. You made me curious and made me look for some data on rural schools in US. According to this 2010 data[1] it seems we don't even need to go to rural areas. As an example, look at California, where we have more 5 to 17 years old in families living in poverty in town than in rural areas.
As a cultural curiosity, I wonder what would be the results of a survey for professor with questions about Wikipedia in schools of poor districts of USA.
[1] http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ruraled/tables/a.1.a.-6_2010.asp
This reminds me my high school in a public school of São Paulo (1996-1998), where we had a good computer lab to train AutoCAD software, but it was never used, since teachers didn't know how to use these new computers. Same thing with my brother, who became a Linux geek at the age of 15, but the school director kept the computer lab doors closed and he could not spend his time with something he loved. Quite the opposite, teachers were sometimes wrong things to him or underestimating his intelligence.
I gave these two examples of public school in the richest town of South America to tell about teachers who simply didn't know how to use some tools everybody had access to.
P. S. AutoCAD for the level of things I needed that time is easier than editing Wikipedia.
Tom
-- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org