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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 »

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 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

We Need Educational Regime Change in 2014

Tuesday, March 25th, 2014

Tags: 2014 Trends, Charles Leadbeater, Learning from the Extremes, regime change, tribes
Posted in 2014 ICT4Edu Trends | Comments Off on We Need Educational Regime Change in 2014

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

Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel?

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Tags: Apple Educator, Clay Christensen, Jonathan Nadler, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOC, OLPC, Pandora, World Reader
Posted in Massive Open Online Courses | Comments Off on Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel?

UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning: Asia

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Tags: Asia, Computers, Digital Textbooks, eLearning, Illustrative Initiatives, Korea, Laptop, Mark West, mLearning, Mobile Learning, Mobile Phone, Mobile Technologies, Philippines, Policy Implications, Student-Centric, T2T, Teacher Professional Development, Teacher Training, Teachers, Text2Teach, Unesco, Working Papers
Posted in Mobile Learning Initiatives | 9 Comments »

UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning: Latin America

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Tags: BridgeIT, eLearning, EMIA-SMILE, Laptop Computers, Latin America, mLearning, Mobile Learning, Mobile Phone, Mobile Technologies, Policy Implications, Student-Centric, Teacher-proof, Teachers, Unesco, Uruguay, Working Papers
Posted in Mobile Learning Initiatives | 5 Comments »

All 1-to-1 ICT4E Programs Around the World and Evaluation Metrics For Them

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Tags: 1-to-1 computing, Classmate PC, croudsourcing, donor agencies, Global list, governments, ICT4E, ICT4E Deployments, laptop programs worldwide, Laptops, Netbooks, NGOs, OLPC, OLPC Peru, One Laptop Per Child, tablets, XO Laptop
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 7 Comments »

Oscar Becerra on OLPC Peru’s Long-Term Impact

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Tags: 1:1 laptop, doomed to failure, Educational Resource Center, elementary school, Huascarán project, ict industry, ICT4E, Ministry of Education, OLPC, OLPC approach, OLPC Peru, Oscar Becerra, Pedagogy Innovation, Peru, Primary School, Public school, Una laptop por nino, XO Laptop
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 25 Comments »