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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

Do Computers and Internet Access at Home Reduce Student Test Scores?

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Tags: Home Computers, Household Internet Access, Human Capital, Jacob Vigdor, Low-Income Students, North Carolina, Ofer Malamud, Romania, Test Scores
Posted in Educational ICT at Home | 95219 Comments »2010-07-12+13%3A32%3A32wayan

Wayan Vota: Technology in Schools, in Education, is Not Wasted

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Tags: FM Radio, ICT4E Assessment, Interactive Radio Instruction, IRI, Lesson Plans, Mobile Phones, Parent Teacher Association, Rote Learning, Spreadsheet, TV, Video, XO Laptop
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 887No Comments »2010-05-20+13%3A42%3A14wayan

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

Live Debate Impression: Are ICT Investments in Schools Wasted?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Tags: Generalization, Live Debate, Pascal, Sam Carlson, Voting, Wayan Vota, Yama Ploskonka
Posted in ICT Tools for South Asia | 82113 Comments »2010-04-22+13%3A39%3A59wayan

What are the Top ICT4E Trends in 2010?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Tags: 2010 Trends, Android, Constructionism, Educational Systems, Linux, Open Content, Predictions, Teacher Training, Ubuntu, Windows 7
Posted in 2010 ICT4E Trends | 6445 Comments »2010-01-15+16%3A19%3A53wayan

For Real OLPC Impact, We Need Infrastructure

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Tags: Connectivity, Infrastructure, Leland Smith, OLPC Impact, Peace Corps, Power, Software, Teacher Training, XO Laptop
Posted in One Laptop Per Child Impact | 63320 Comments »2009-12-22+13%3A28%3A07wayan

What We Learned From OLPC Deployments

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Tags: Alan Kay, Construnctionism, Haiti, Harlem, ICT4E, Mozambique, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC Deployments, Peru, Scott Kipp, Seymour Papert
Posted in One Laptop Per Child Impact | 6016 Comments »What+We+Learned+From+OLPC+Deployments2009-12-05+16%3A46%3A13wayan

Should We Shift ICT4E Assessments From Technology to Adoption?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Tags: Change Management, Clayton R Wright, Educational Ecosystems, ICT4E, John LeBaron, Mary Hooker, Rob van Son, Socio-Cultural Context
Posted in Assessing ICT4E Evaluations | 58110 Comments »2009-11-30+20%3A16%3A37wayan

Improving ICT Assessment in Education

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Tags: Digital Divide, Education Matrix, GeSCI, ICT Policy, Information Age, Mary Hooker, Morel’s Matrix, Status Quo
Posted in Assessing ICT4E Evaluations | 56111 Comments »Improving+ICT+Assessment+in+Education2009-11-24+13%3A04%3A53wayan