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MIT-Haiti Initiative Uses Haitian Creole to Make Learning Truly Active, Constructive, and Interactive

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Tags: culture preservation, Haiti, Haitian Creole, Kreyòl, Languages, Linguistics, Michel DeGraff, MIT
Posted in Cultural Heritage | Comments Off on MIT-Haiti Initiative Uses Haitian Creole to Make Learning Truly Active, Constructive, and Interactive

MOOCs Will Come and Mostly Go Like Other EduTech Fads

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Tags: EdX, Harvard, ICT4D Jester, ICT4E, Kentaro Toyama, Khan Academy, Massive Open Online Courses, MIT, MOOC, Udacity
Posted in Massive Open Online Courses | Comments Off on MOOCs Will Come and Mostly Go Like Other EduTech Fads

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 4 Comments »

Are ICT investments in schools an education revolution or fool’s errand?

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Tags: Childrens Machine, Claudia Urrea, Cristobal Cobo, Flickering Mind, ICT4E, Kentaro Toyama, Larry Cuban, Lowell Monke
Posted in ICT in Schools | 9 Comments »