Tablet as teacher: Poor Ethiopian kids learn ABCs

By Jason Straziuso

Published December 24, 2012 10:09am ET

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Tablet as teacher: Poor Ethiopian kids learn ABCs — In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, children play with tablet computers given to them by the One Laptop Per Child project in the village of Wenchi, Ethiopia. The project gave tablets to the children in the poor, illiterate village to see how much the children could teach themselves and now many kids can recite the English alphabet and spell words in English. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) | Jason Straziuso

WENCHI, Ethiopia (AP) — The kids in this volcano-rim village wear filthy, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They don’t go to school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet, and some can spell words.

The key to their success: 20 tablet computers dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a group called One Laptop Per Child.

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