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Entries Tagged "OLPC"

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 4 Comments »

Affordable Technologies for Supporting Learning and Collaboration in Africa

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Tags: Affordable Technology, eTransform Africa, ipad, Laptops, Mobile Phones, OLPC, Policy Makers
Posted in Affordable Technology | 16 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 »

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 | 16 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 | 155 Comments »

OLPC in Paraguay: Will ParaguayEduca’s XO Laptop Deployment Success Scale?

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Tags: Asunción, IADB, ICT4E, ICT4E Deployments, OLPC, OLPC Deployments, OLPC Paraguay, One Laptop Per Child, ParaguayEduca, Scratch, Sugar, Turtle Building Blocks, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, WiMAX
Posted in OLPC in South America | 4 Comments »

OLPC in Uruguay: Impressions of Plan Ceibal’s Primary School XO Laptop Saturation

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Tags: Canal Ceibal, ceibalJAM, CITS, Flor de Ceibo, ICT4E, ICT4E Deployments, LATU, OLPC, OLPC Deployments, OLPC Uruguay, Plan Ceibal, RAP Ceibal, Uruguay
Posted in OLPC in South America | 30 Comments »

OLPC in South America: An Overview of OLPC in Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Tags: ICT4E, ICT4E Deployments, ICT4E Implementation, OLPC, OLPC Deployments, OLPC Paraguay, OLPC Peru, OLPC Uruguay, One Laptop Per Child, South America
Posted in OLPC in South America | 8 Comments »

Frameworks for Interpreting the Romania and North Carolina Home Computer Use Studies

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Tags: Change, Curriculum, English, Learning, Literacies, Math, North Carolina, OLPC, Power, Romania, Technology
Posted in Educational ICT at Home | 2 Comments »