Comments on: What is Your Vision for Developing World Education? https://edutechdebate.org/educational-vision/what-is-your-vision-for-developing-world-education/ Educational Technology Debate Wed, 16 May 2012 15:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Debbie Dunn - UK https://edutechdebate.org/educational-vision/what-is-your-vision-for-developing-world-education/comment-page-1/#comment-17828 Debbie Dunn - UK Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:38 +0000 http://edutechdebate.org/?p=56#comment-17828 Yet the way education is currently delivered cannot possibility cope with the population surge. You have a typo. Yet the way education is currently delivered cannot possibility cope with the population surge.

You have a typo.

]]> By: John Daly https://edutechdebate.org/educational-vision/what-is-your-vision-for-developing-world-education/comment-page-1/#comment-15 John Daly Tue, 12 May 2009 22:09:36 +0000 http://edutechdebate.org/?p=56#comment-15 Africans face rapidly changing circumstances and a large portion of Africans get only a few years of poor quality formal education. It seems obvious that it is even more important to provide Africans with learning opportunities over their entire lifetimes than to improve primary schooling. People should be able to choose learning opportunities that are in languages that they speak fluently, that are appropriate to their current knowledge and learning skills, that meet their priority needs for information, that are readily accessible, and that attract and maintain their interest and attentiveness. Thus there should be learning opportunities for farmers, for people working in manufacturing, for those involved in sales, for mothers and fathers, for the ill and those who seek to maintain their health, for those who need to maintain and/or improve their housing, for those who cook, etc. Some of the learning opportunities would be face to face, some in setting in which services are provided and some should be via the media. I think the more innovative approaches will be using radio, especially community radio, and phones including SMS. Africans face rapidly changing circumstances and a large portion of Africans get only a few years of poor quality formal education. It seems obvious that it is even more important to provide Africans with learning opportunities over their entire lifetimes than to improve primary schooling.

People should be able to choose learning opportunities that are in languages that they speak fluently, that are appropriate to their current knowledge and learning skills, that meet their priority needs for information, that are readily accessible, and that attract and maintain their interest and attentiveness.

Thus there should be learning opportunities for farmers, for people working in manufacturing, for those involved in sales, for mothers and fathers, for the ill and those who seek to maintain their health, for those who need to maintain and/or improve their housing, for those who cook, etc.

Some of the learning opportunities would be face to face, some in setting in which services are provided and some should be via the media. I think the more innovative approaches will be using radio, especially community radio, and phones including SMS.

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