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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

Book-Poor, but Mobile Phone-Rich? Look to M-Novels

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Tags: books, Connectivity, distraction, Kontax, mobiles, Nick Carr, Steve Vosloo
Posted in Literacies: Old and New | 10712 Comments »2010-08-26+13%3A30%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

One Mouse Per Child: Simultaneous Participatory Educational Interaction

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Tags: Chile, Intelligent Tutoring System, Miguel Nussbaum, One Mouse per Child, Participatory Interactions, Pedagogy, Pointing Device, Power Point
Posted in Low-Cost ICT Devices | 9119 Comments »2010-06-08+13%3A30%3A03wayan

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

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

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

Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) Improves Indian Student Learning

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Tags: English, India, Interactive Radio Instruction, Kannada, Life Skills, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Tamil, Technology Tools for Teaching, Telugu
Posted in ICT Tools for South Asia | 7602 Comments »2010-04-12+13%3A17%3A30wayan

Universal Platform Solution, Universal Curricula Problem

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Tags: eLearning, HTML, Mobile Phones, Taran Rampersad, Universal Curricula, Universal Platform, XML
Posted in eLearning Promise | 7451 Comment »2010-03-24+13%3A43%3A28wayan

Collaborative Learning 2.0 for Pakistan

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Tags: Abdul Aziz Bhatti, Collaboration, Federal Government Model School, KZO Education, Learning 2.0, Metadata, Pakistain, Phil Cruver, Web 2.0
Posted in eLearning Promise | 7295 Comments »2010-03-19+13%3A30%3A15wayan