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Entries Tagged "ICT4E"

Making Interactive Radio Instruction Truly Interactive with Community Radio and Mobile Phones

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Tags: Amazon, Community Radio, Curriculum, EDC, ICT4E, Interactive, Interactive Radio Instruction, IRI, Literacy Bridge, Mary Myers, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Revi Sterling, WiFi Phones
Posted in Open Discussion | No Comments »

What is the Potential Impact of the iPad, Kindle, and other Tablet Computers in Education?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Tags: administrator, children, Classroom, Developing World, Education, ICT4E, ipad, kindle, Learning, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, nook, slide2learn, students, Teachermate, Teachers
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 32 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 »

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 »

The question is not whether, but how ICT can be useful in education

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Tags: Athens, Constructivist, Debate, Drill, Educational Technology, happiness, health, ICT4E, Lycurgus, Socrates, Sparta, Teacher Productivity, Virtual Classroom, Wealth
Posted in ICT in Schools | 16 Comments »

There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Tags: 9 Myths of ICT4E, Computers, Educational Outcomes, EduTech Hubris, ICT4E, Justified Educational Technology, TCO, Teacher Training, Technology Cycle, Total Cost of Ownership
Posted in ICT in Schools | 157 Comments »

Are ICT investments in schools an education revolution or fool’s errand?

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Tags: Childrens Machine, Claudia Urrea, Cristobal Cobo, Flickering Mind, ICT4E, Kentaro Toyama, Larry Cuban, Lowell Monke
Posted in ICT in Schools | 8 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 | 13 Comments »

OLPC in South America in Context of Deployments Around the World

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Tags: Colombia, Haiti, ICT4E, ICT4E Implementation, Nepal, OLE Nepal, OLPC, OLPC Afghanistan, OLPC Colombia, OLPC Nepal, OLPC Paraguay, OLPC Peru, OLPC Uruguay, One Laptop Per Child, Open Learning Exchange, Paraguay, ParaguayEduca, Peru, Plan Ceibal, Sao Tome e Principe, Una laptop por nino, Uruguay, Waveplace
Posted in OLPC in South America | 11 Comments »

OLPC in Peru: A Problematic Una Laptop Por Niño Program

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Tags: Arahuay, DIGETE, Direccion Regional de Educacion, IADB, ICT4E, ICT4E Deployments, Lima, OLPC, OLPC Deployments, OLPC Peru, One Laptop Per Child, UGEL, Una laptop por nino
Posted in OLPC in South America | 156 Comments »