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You May Eat Too Much, But You Can Never Know Too Much

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Tags: Flynn effect, hyperlinks, Nick Carr, Rob van Son, television
Posted in Literacies: Old and New | 1081No Comments »2010-08-31+15%3A51%3A19Kevin_Donovan

The Reality of ICT in the Classroom Doesn’t Live Up to the Potential

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Tags: books, cognitive overload, Digital Divide, hyperlinks, Nick Carr, The Shallows
Posted in Literacies: Old and New | 98820 Comments »2010-08-10+13%3A30%3A18Kevin_Donovan

Closing Statements on: Are ICT Investments in Schools Wasted?

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Tags: Ashish Garg, Atanu Dey, Benjamin Vergel De Dios, Inida, Live Debate, Robert Lattimore, Sam Carlson, Tim Kelly, Wayan Vota
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 8951 Comment »2010-05-25+13%3A30%3A07wayan

Sam Carlson: There is Enormous Wastage in the Implementation of Education Technology for Schools

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Tags: Board Exams, CBSE, Examination System, ICT Literacy, Iterative Training, Sam Carlson, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Teacher Training, World Bank India, World Links
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 8788 Comments »2010-05-18+13%3A12%3A56wayan

Benjamin Vergel De Dios: Most ICT are Wasted in Schools due to Human Tendencies and Organizational Choices

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Tags: Benjamin Vergel De Dios, Ego, ICT, Political Showcase, Secondary Schools, Teacher Training, Technology Choices, Turf War
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 8641 Comment »2010-05-11+13%3A18%3A44wayan

Ashish Garg on Why Most Investments in Technology for Schools are Not Wasted

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Tags: Ashish Garg, Educational Framework, GeSCI, ICT4E, Jyrki Pulkinnen, Korea, Millennium Summit, Nepal
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 8564 Comments »2010-05-07+13%3A22%3A05wayan

Technology in School Education: To Outsource ICT or Not

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Tags: Gurumurthy Kasinathan, ICT infrastructure, India, IT@Schools, Karnataka, Kerala, Mahiti Sindhu, Outsourcing
Posted in ICT Tools for South Asia | 8409 Comments »2010-04-29+13%3A35%3A05wayan

IT@school Project: Successfully Educating Kerala with ICT

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Tags: FOSS, GNU/Linux, ICT, India, IT@school, Kerala, Master Trainers, Open Source Software, Schoolwiki, Teacher Training, Virtual Classroom Technology
Posted in ICT Tools for South Asia | 781No Comments »2010-04-26+13%3A30%3A54wayan

Happening Now! Live Educational Technology Debate

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Tags: Educational Technology Debate, India, infoDev, Live Debate, New Delhi, Technology in Schools, Tim Kelly
Posted in ICT Tools for South Asia | 805No Comments »2010-04-21+05%3A00%3A00wayan

eLearning Teacher Training Challenges in Africa

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Tags: Education for All, eLearning, Inge de Waard, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Selection, Teacher Training, Teachers, Unesco, Universal Primary Education
Posted in eLearning Promise | 7311 Comment »2010-03-31+13%3A30%3A20wayan