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We Cannot Train More Teachers, We Must Empower Them with Technology

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Tags: Digitizing Textbooks, eBooks, ICT4E, India, OECD, OLPC, Open Content, Open Education Resources, Retraining Teachers, Teacher Mentors, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Training, Textbooks
Posted in Teacher Training | 20 Comments »

mEducation: How Mobile Phones Can Empower Education in the Developing World

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Tags: BridgeIT, Classroom, Janala Project, Jokko Initiative, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, One Smartphone Per Teacher, Project ABC, Smartphones, SMS, Teachers
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 15 Comments »

Platform Agnostic Approaches to Empower Bottom-Up Edcuational Change

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Tags: Bert Freudenberg, Bottom-Up Apporach, LiveUSB, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Platform Agnostic, Sugar on a Stick
Posted in Individal and Communal Computer Usage | 1 Comment »

Shared Access Computing is the Most Economical and Scalable Model

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Tags: 1:1 Computing, Classmate PC, Digitizing Textbooks, Intel, Mark Beckford, NComputing, Shared Access Computing, Shared Computer Model
Posted in Individal and Communal Computer Usage | 24 Comments »

What is the Potential Impact of the iPad, Kindle, and other Tablet Computers in Education?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Tags: administrator, children, Classroom, Developing World, Education, ICT4E, ipad, kindle, Learning, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, nook, slide2learn, students, Teachermate, Teachers
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 32 Comments »

What the Post-PC Era Means for Education

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Tags: 200 MHz, 8086, Apple, GPS, ipad, OLPC, PDA, Pentium, Post-PC Era, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Virginia Campbell, XO Laptop
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 9 Comments »

Mobile Phones: Better Learning Tools than Computers?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Tags: Maasai, Mobile Phones, Mumbai, Netbooks, Seymour Papert, Smartphones, Telecenter
Posted in Mobile Phones and Computers | 22 Comments »

Educational Technology Conferences for June to December 2014

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

Tags: 2014, Clayton R Wright, Conference, EduTech, event
Posted in 2014 ICT4Edu Trends | Comments Off on Educational Technology Conferences for June to December 2014

Mobiles For Teaching And Learning: Translating Theory into Practice

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Tags: measurement of learning, mEducation, microlearning, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Mobile Teaching, multimedia learning, Sarah Pouezevara, Teachers, technocentric
Posted in Mobile Teaching | 1 Comment »