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Girls ICT Skills Gap: What Can Be Done?

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Tags: e-Skills, European Comission, ICT Literacy, ICT Skills, ICT Tool, Networking Academy, TechCareer, Tinkquest
Posted in Gender Equality in ICT Education | 1 Comment »

What ICT can improve reading skills of learners in primary schools?

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Tags: Accountability, Ethiopia, Global Education Strategy, ICT4E, Primary School, Reading Delivery Systems, Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, RFP, Technology, Transparency, USAID
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 10 Comments »

How Can Educational ICT be Relevant to the Poorest of the Poor?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

Tags: Educational ICT, EduTech, Gaurav Tiwari, NEPAD e-Schools, Poor, socio-economic background
Posted in 2014 ICT4Edu Trends | 1 Comment »

Where is the Focus of OLPC in Peru and ICT4E in General?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Tags: Arahuay, Carmen Strigel, children, early reading, explicit objectives, extreme poverty, focus, ICT for Education, ICT4E, IDB, intervention planning, Monitoring and evaluation, OLPC Peru, pedagogical support, rigorous, Specific problems, Student achievement, students, systematic
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 4 Comments »

We Need More Teacher-Centered Solutions in ICT for Literacy

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Tags: adaptive test, artificial intelligence, Classroom teacher, ESL, fluency level, ICT Tool, language tools, phonemic awareness, phonics, reading adoption, reading comprehension, student confidence, Teacher-Centered Solutions, Toni Maraviglia, vocabulary words
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 5 Comments »

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 »

Open Call for Submissions: What are the Greatest Challenges in Promoting Literacy with ICT?

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Tags: appropriate hardware, Content, Developing World, eBooks, Human Constraints, ICT infrastructure, ICT tools, ICT4E, literacy, Market Failure, Primary Schools, Reading, Reading Delivery Systems, Reading ICT, Software, Technology
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 10 Comments »

Improving Reading Skills Through Personalizing Literacy Instruction

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Tags: adaptive materials, Charles Callis, Early Reading Program, ICT4E, Individualized Instruction, personalized literacy instruction, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, remediation, repetition, Waterford Early Learning, Waterford Institute
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 2 Comments »

ICT and the Early Grade Reading Assessment: From Testing to Teaching

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Tags: Android, assessment software, Carmen Strigel, continuous assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, data collection, Early Grade Reading Assessment, EGRA, Ethiopia, ipad, iProSurveyor, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile ICT Device, Mobile Phones, RTI International, Tablet
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 5 Comments »

Teacher Training on ICT Cannot Be a One-Time Event

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Tags: AED, CBAM, Classroom Usage, Concerns Based Adoption Model, Laura Hosman, Macedonia, Macedonia Connects, Maja Cvetanoska, Ministry of Educational Development, multi-disciplinarity, Pedagogy, Teacher Training, Technological Expertise
Posted in Teacher Training | 4 Comments »