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January 2012

Reading Skills in Primary Schools

What ICT can improve reading skills of learners in primary schools?

For October, the Educational Technology Debate will be focusing on ICT that can improve reading skills of learners in primary schools. Our topic is influenced by the USAID Global Education Strategy, which has as it’s Goal One the improved reading skills for 100 million children in primary grades by 2015, via improved reading instruction, improved […]

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

The science of early literacy acquisition and proven techniques for teaching reading are both backed by years of experimental research, as well as practical experience implementing programs to improve reading. EGRA testing in Ethiopia Experts agree that measuring reading progress early offers the benefits of informing remediation, taking a snapshot in time or showing progress […]

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ABCs and ICTs: Delivering Scale and Value with a Whole Class Learning Solution

D is for desktop. L is for laptop. M is for mobile. E is for expensive! For the time being, traditional technologies are too expensive and complicated to implement in scale, while also allowing sufficient funding for teacher training and learning materials development. Desktops in school computer rooms require a dedicated, secure classroom that would […]

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Improving Reading Skills Through Personalizing Literacy Instruction

One of the great struggles of education is providing all children the individualized instruction they need to understand the material taught and to be challenged at their level, especially when teaching children to read and improve their reading skills. In an ideal environment, the teacher would be able to provide each student personal attention and […]

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The Bottom of the Pyramid needs Reading ICT Solutions too

While you stand there smugly surveying your sea of shiny computers in your state-of-the-art school computer centre, please spare a thought for the billion or so people who never made it to school, or who dropped out after a year or two or three, and never even learned to read and write.  Most of them […]

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Worldreader is leading a reading revolution in the developing world

In April of this year, I wrote the following in the Educational technology Debate post eReaders will transform the developing world – in and outside the classroom: “If Worldreader’s experience so far is any guide, e-readers are set to transform the developing world, both in – and outside the classroom. But this change won’t be […]

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