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Towards Glocal Learning Communities

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Tags: Glocal Learning Communities, ICT, knowledge repositories, Local Languages, mobile Internet, P2PU, Teemu Leinonen, Wikiversity
Posted in Open Discussion | 4 Comments »

Assistive Technology Must Address Extreme Poverty and Support Local Content

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Tags: Assistive Technology, Cliff Schmidt, Content, Electricty, Language, Literacy Bridge, Poverty, Talking Book
Posted in Assistive Technology | 2 Comments »

Let’s Get Informal: Mobile Phones for Adult Basic Education in West Africa

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Tags: Adult Literacy, Catholic Relief Service, Jenny C. Aker, literacy, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Niger, numeracy, Project ABC, Projet d'Alphabetisation a Base Cellulaire, SMS
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 2 Comments »

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

The Role of Language in Knowledge Society Educational Systems

Monday, July 15th, 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Educational Systems, ICT4E, Knowledge Society, Languages, OER, Roxana Bassi, Susana Finquelievich
Posted in Cultural Heritage | Comments Off on The Role of Language in Knowledge Society Educational Systems

Technology in Education is Classist

Monday, May 27th, 2013

Tags: Affordable Private Schools, edtech tolerance, EduTech, ICT4E, Mobile Phones, Mobile Technologies, private schools, public schools, SMS, Technology
Posted in Public vs Private Schools | Comments Off on Technology in Education is Classist

Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Tags: EduTech, GeSCI, Latin America, MOOC, OLPC, RELPE, Roxana Bassi, TCO
Posted in 2013 ICT4Edu Trends | Comments Off on Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation

Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Tags: African Populations, Apple, Chalk and Talk, Content, eBooks, ICT in Education, iOs, ipad, slide2learn, tablet pc, Teacher Training, Wikipedia
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 17 Comments »

Yoza Excites African Teenagers to Love Reading Using Mobile Phones

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Tags: Kontax, literacy, m4Lit, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, MXit, Shuttleworth Foundation, Sisterz, South Africa, Steve Vosloo, StreetSkillz, Teen Literacy, Teenagers, Yoza
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 3 Comments »

Hidden Opportunity: Mobile Reading Solutions for the Blind

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Tags: Benetech, Blind, Eyes Free, LookingAid Mobile, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Mobile Speak, Nokia, Nuance Talks, OCR, Paul Lamb, Smartphones, Visually Impaired
Posted in Assistive Technology | 5 Comments »