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What’s the Role of Gaming in Education?

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Tags: EVOKE, Jane McGonigal, TED Talk, Video Games
Posted in Games and Education | 6 Comments »

Educational Technology Conferences for June to December 2014

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

Tags: 2014, Clayton R Wright, Conference, EduTech, event
Posted in 2014 ICT4Edu Trends | Comments Off on Educational Technology Conferences for June to December 2014

MOOCs Will Come and Mostly Go Like Other EduTech Fads

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Tags: EdX, Harvard, ICT4D Jester, ICT4E, Kentaro Toyama, Khan Academy, Massive Open Online Courses, MIT, MOOC, Udacity
Posted in Massive Open Online Courses | Comments Off on MOOCs Will Come and Mostly Go Like Other EduTech Fads

Open Educational Resources Expand Educational Inequalities

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Tags: blog, educational inequalities, Gates Foundation, Graduate School of Education, Harvard, Hewlett Foundation, Honors Students, inequality, John Rawls, Justin Reich, Khan Academy videos, multimedia publications, National Science Foundation, OER, open educational resources, pedagogical models, social technology, Wealthy Schools, wiki
Posted in OER and Digital Divide | 19 Comments »

There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Tags: 9 Myths of ICT4E, Computers, Educational Outcomes, EduTech Hubris, ICT4E, Justified Educational Technology, TCO, Teacher Training, Technology Cycle, Total Cost of Ownership
Posted in ICT in Schools | 158 Comments »

Let’s Focus on Educational Media, Not ICT Devices

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Tags: $10 Computer, 8-bit computer, Copyrights, Derek Lomas, Digital Educational Media, Intellectual Property, Millee, NYU, Oregon Trail, Playpower, Video Games
Posted in Low-Cost ICT Devices | 10 Comments »

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 | 11 Comments »

Mobiles For Teaching And Learning: Translating Theory into Practice

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Tags: measurement of learning, mEducation, microlearning, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Mobile Teaching, multimedia learning, Sarah Pouezevara, Teachers, technocentric
Posted in Mobile Teaching | 1 Comment »

10 Lessons Learned From Online Learning for Teacher Professional Development

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Tags: Distance education, high-quality teaching, Mary Burns, MOOC, Online Community, Online Learning, Skilled Facilitation, Teacher Professional Development, Teacher Training
Posted in Distance Education for Teachers | 7 Comments »

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from One Laptop per Child Program in Peru

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Tags: 1:1 computing 1:1 learning, academic achievement, academic software, Coding test, cognitive skills, computers in schools, Educational Outcomes, Evidence, Human Capital, IDB, Inter-American Development Bank, Language, Laptop, Math, objective data, OLPC, OLPC Peru, One Laptop Per Child, Peru, randomized evaluation, Raven’s Progressive Matrices, verbal fluency
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 28 Comments »