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Learning with Mobile Devices Somewhere Near the Bottom of the Pyramid

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Tags: Africa, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Base of the Pyramid, Funders, ICT, John Traxler, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Pilots, Policy Makers, South Africa
Posted in Affordable Technology | 4 Comments »

Educational Management Information Systems in Africa (and elsewhere)

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Tags: application software, computer system, database software, Dr. John Lovely, EMIS, EMIS Home Unit, IT Skills, Rapid Application Development, requirements specification, user acceptance
Posted in Education Management Information Systems | 9 Comments »

Eventually Tablets will Facilitate more Personalized and Interactive Learning

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Tags: Folding Keyboards, iOs, ipad, iPad Usage, K-12 schools, Laptop, mobile operating system, Netbooks, One to One, tablet pc, US school district
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 6 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 »

What the Post-PC Era Means for Education

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Tags: 200 MHz, 8086, Apple, GPS, ipad, OLPC, PDA, Pentium, Post-PC Era, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Virginia Campbell, XO Laptop
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 9 Comments »

Teacher Training on ICT Cannot Be a One-Time Event

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Tags: AED, CBAM, Classroom Usage, Concerns Based Adoption Model, Laura Hosman, Macedonia, Macedonia Connects, Maja Cvetanoska, Ministry of Educational Development, multi-disciplinarity, Pedagogy, Teacher Training, Technological Expertise
Posted in Teacher Training | 4 Comments »

Is Teacher Training the Solution to Better ICT Usage in Education?

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Tags: Assessment Drives Instruction, Canadian Education Association, Economy of Scale, ICT, ICT4E, Mid-Adaptor, Professional Development, School Board
Posted in Teacher Training | 3 Comments »

ICT Teacher Training is Possible and Affordable on a National Scale

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Tags: Affordable Training, Badia school, ICDL, ICT, International Computer Drivers License, Jordan, Master Trainers, MENA Region, Teacher Training, UNDP, World Links
Posted in Teacher Training | 8 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 »

Technologies for Learning vs. Learning about Technology

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Tags: Costa Rica, El Silencio, Home Learning, Microworlds, Seymour Papert, Student Learning, Student Ownership, Teacher Engagement, Technology Adoption, Technology Fluency
Posted in ICT in Schools | 25 Comments »