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ICT and the Early Grade Reading Assessment: From Testing to Teaching

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Tags: Android, assessment software, Carmen Strigel, continuous assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, data collection, Early Grade Reading Assessment, EGRA, Ethiopia, ipad, iProSurveyor, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile ICT Device, Mobile Phones, RTI International, Tablet
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 5 Comments »

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 | 11 Comments »

Stop Wasting Children with ICT4E Assessments

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Tags: Assessments, benefits, Computers, David Hestenes, Evaluations, Free Software, ICT4E, PISA Scores, Rob van Son
Posted in Assessing ICT4E Evaluations | 20 Comments »

ICT4E Assessments Help Avoid Wasteful Tragedy

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Tags: Assessment, GeSCI, Global e-Schools and Community Initiative, grammar of schooling, ICT integration, ICT4E, M&E Research, Mary Hooker, Patti Swarts, Robert Kozma, Tim Unwin, Wasteful Tradegy
Posted in Assessing ICT4E Evaluations | 4 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

Distance Education Should Be a Viable Solution to Create Quality Teaching

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Tags: asynchronous communication, Distance Education for Teacher Training, high-quality teacher, high-quality teaching, instructional skills, Learning Outcomes, Mary Burns, Online Learning, predictor of student achievement
Posted in Distance Education for Teachers | 1 Comment »

Improving Reading Skills Through Personalizing Literacy Instruction

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Tags: adaptive materials, Charles Callis, Early Reading Program, ICT4E, Individualized Instruction, personalized literacy instruction, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, remediation, repetition, Waterford Early Learning, Waterford Institute
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 2 Comments »

The Makerere E-Learning Experience Providing Professional Development to Academics

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Tags: African Virtual University, assessment methods, Intellectual Property Laws, LMS, Makerere University, Online Education, Provision of Content, Quality Assurance Framework, Sub Saharan Africa, Tito O.OKUMU, Uganda
Posted in Teacher Professional Development | 3 Comments »

Time to Move to Competency-Based Continuing Professional Development

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Tags: ability, competency, competency-based professional development, eLearning, ICT Continuing Professional Development, ICT integration, ICT Skills, ICT-CFT, skill, Teacher Professional Development, Teacher Training, Tracy Immel, UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers
Posted in Teacher Professional Development | 8 Comments »

Math4Mobile: Design & Implementation Challenges

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Tags: collaborative thinking, computerized tools, Fit2Go, Graph2Go, Math Education, math4mobile, Mathematics, Mobile Phones, Quad2Go, Sketch2Go, VisualMath
Posted in Affordable Technology | Comments Off on Math4Mobile: Design & Implementation Challenges