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Can eBooks Satisfy? Creating Content for ICT-enabled Classrooms

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Tags: Angus Scrimgeour, Digital Content, Dissemination Model, eBooks, Educational Content, IADP, Open Learning Exchange, Richard Rowe
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 21 Comments »

What Do OLPC Peru Results Mean for ICT in Education?

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Tags: Amos Cruz, ICT4E, ICT4E Assessment, IDB Stuy, Netbooks, OLPC, OLPC Deployment, OLPC Peru, One Laptop Per Child, One to One, pedagogical application, pedagogical support, randomized control trial, Technology Salon, Uruguay, Walter Bender, XO Deployment
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 2 Comments »

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 »

Assessing the Impact of iPads on Education One Year Later

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Tags: App Market, Battery Life, Consumption Device, Educational Device, eTextbooks, GarageBand, Instant On, ipad, iPad Usage, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Sam Glicksman
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 13 Comments »

We Cannot Train More Teachers, We Must Empower Them with Technology

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Tags: Digitizing Textbooks, eBooks, ICT4E, India, OECD, OLPC, Open Content, Open Education Resources, Retraining Teachers, Teacher Mentors, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Training, Textbooks
Posted in Teacher Training | 20 Comments »

What is reasonable to expect from information and communication technologies in education?

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Tags: Constructionist, ICT4E, Multi-Grade Classroom, OECD, OLCP Peru, One Laptop Per Child, Oscar Becerra, Papert, pedagogical approach, Teacher Resourc Centers
Posted in Computer Configurations for Learning | 14 Comments »

Deep Thoughts or Deep Prejudices?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Tags: m-novel, m4Lit, Marion Walton, mobile literacies, MXit, Nick Carr, Shuttleworth Foundation
Posted in Literacies: Old and New | 3 Comments »

2010 Trends: Alternate Computing Emergence and Convergence

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Tags: Computers, Convergence, Intel, Mark Beckford, Mobile Phones, NComputing, Netbooks, OLPC, Windows Multipoint Server
Posted in 2010 ICT4E Trends | 30 Comments »

We Need a Three-legged Stool of Content, Technology and People

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Tags: Content, courseware, eBooks, Handwriting, People, Quality and Universal Basic Education, QUBE, Shuttleworth Foundation, Siyavula, Teachers, Technology
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 12 Comments »

Balancing Content, Technology, and People for Quality Basic Education

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Tags: Content, Creative Commons, eBooks, ICT, Intellectual Property, OLE Nepal, Open Learning Exchange, Quality Basic Education, Richard Rowe, Siyavula Project
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 33 Comments »