A laptop , a kid and the story

Books are man’s rational protest against the irrational, man’s pitiful protest against the implacable, man’s ideal against the world’s real, man’s word against the cosmic dumbness, man’s life against the planetary death, man’s revelation of the God within him… If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back--- in a book.


-John Cowper Powys (from Sawyer, 1962, p. 105



The concept is build around with the scenario -> a Computer (olpc in this case) and a Rural Kid.....Age 11.....what and how can he learn through the storybook mode and how the learning his enhanced by including a dictionary for the kids to understand the word usage and meaning in the storytelling mode.

Research and reading was done about story telling and how useful it can be for children.The elements of a story and the gain or expereince stories impart to children is summarized below.
It is what a kid can do and gain with the laptop and by using the propsed story telling activity on it.