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Groups and Grandma: Home Computer Use Boosters

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Tags: Biotechnology, Ethan Zuckerman, Grandmothers, Group Learning, Hole in the Wall, Inida, Professor Sugata Mitra, Self Organised Learning Environments, Shared Computing, Skype, SOLE, TedTalks
Posted in Educational ICT at Home | 9803 Comments »2010-07-19+13%3A30%3A58wayan

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

Input Your Favorite Low-Cost ICT Device for Education Today!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Tags: ict education, ICT integration, ICT Tool, ICT4E, infoDev, Low-cost ICT, Quick Guide, World Bank
Posted in Low-Cost ICT Devices | 9313 Comments »2010-06-22+13%3A22%3A59wayan

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

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

Atanu Dey on Why Most Investments in Technology for Schools are Wasted

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Tags: Atanu Dey, Computers, Government Funds, Live Debate, Shakespeare, Taxpayer Money, Technical Solution, Technology
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 844No Comments »2010-05-05+13%3A37%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

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

How Can Assistive Technologies Increase Learning?

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Tags: Assistive Technology, Blind, Cliff Schmidt, Deaf, Disabled, Fernando Botelho, Impaired, James Thurston, Low-cost ICT, Mike Dawson, Paul Lamb
Posted in Assistive Technology | 6597 Comments »2010-02-02+13%3A59%3A19wayan